A coalition of Christian leaders have excluded the presidential candidate of the APC, President Muhammadu Buhari and that of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, from a consultation meeting with presidential candidates. The leaders under the name, the National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), said Atiku and Buhari were excluded because the parties they belong to, the PDP and the APC, which had turned the country into the poverty capital of the world.

Bosun Emmanuel, the secretary of the group in a statement said the presidential candidates that will be invited for the meeting are those who have not been running for the office before as well others who do not belong to the PDP and the APC. The group advised Nigerians to support new presidential candidates as viable options for the 2019 general elections. “This meeting is as a result of the calls from concerned Nigerians that the NCEF should engage the new presidential candidates. By this notice, the NCEF is inviting new presidential candidates to a consultation meeting," the NCEF said.

“By new presidential candidates, the NCEF refers to candidates who have not been running for the office before as well as those not on the platform of the PDP and the APC. The concern of the NCEF is that both parties mismanaged the economy and the society in the past 20 years."

“Jointly, they devalued the Naira by over 1,600 per cent, while increasing the cost of fuel by 625 per cent. They permitted insecurity in the country and escalated religious and ethnic tensions all over the nation. The two parties looted the treasury empty and impoverished Nigerians.”

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