COMMUNIQUE OF THE MEETING OF NORTHERN LEADERS CONSULTATIVE FORUM HELD AT YAR’ADUA CENTER, ABUJA.
DATED 2ND DECEMBER, 2022
PREAMBLE

The Northern Leaders Consultative Forum, a body comprised of Muslim and Christian leaders across the 19 Northern States and FCT was set up on the 8th October, 2022 with the mandate to consult among all strata of people in Northern Nigeria with a view to identifying the political party to support for the 2023 presidential elections. This was necessitated by the rejection of the same faith Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC.

ACTIONS
The Forum set up a Technical Criteria Committee with the mandate to develop a framework and criteria for the assessment of the leading political parties and their presidential candidates and recommend the ticket that represents our religious, ethnic and geographical diversities, capable of bringing about peace, unity, cohesion and inclusiveness.

The Committee has completed its assignment and presented its report to the Forum. The Forum has accordingly adopted the report and hereby issues the following communique:

That the four leading political parties that were considered by the Technical Committee for the purpose of this assignment are:

i. the All Progressives Congress (APC)
ii. the New Nigeria Peoples’ Party (NNPP)
iii. the Labour Party (LP) and
iv. the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP).

DECISIONS
I. The NNPP and the Labour Party
a. That the presidential tickets of the NNPP and LP are inclusive, representing our religious diversity as a country populated by a dominant population of Muslims and Christians.

b. It is however noted that the NNPP and LP have not yet unveiled their Strategic Policy Plan for Nigerians to interrogate. This is less than 3 months to the general elections. And so, it is safe to say that no one except the two parties know the direction in which they intend to take the country. Nigerians cannot go into an election blind folded, especially in view of the myriad of problems bedeviling the nation.

b. The NNPP and LP do not have all round grassroot structures required of a political party seeking the highest office in the country. They do not have reasonable presence of its members in positions of governance at national, state and local government levels. The few if any, have only recently decamped to the parties. There seems to be a dearth of experienced hands within their parties to pilot the affairs of state.

c. Based on INEC’s final list of candidates for the 2023 elections, the NNPP could not field in all the seats for the office of Governor and House of Representatives while LP could not field in all the candidates at the levels of Governor, National Assembly (Senate and House of representatives) and State Houses of Assembly.

The NNPP and LP do not have the required structures to win the presidential election and even if they win, they cannot be able to smoothly run the government as they will not have the required parliamentary majority to successfully pilot the affairs of government.

II. The All progressives Congress (APC)
The APC as we all know has fielded the same faith (Muslim-Muslim) ticket which excludes a large demography of Christians who do not feel represented by the ticket. The APC presidential ticket does not promote inclusiveness, unity, religious harmony and cohesion. A large population of Muslims have also expressed reservations to this ticket and have called for fairness and inclusivity.

Consequently, this ticket is outrightly rejected by the Forum and the Forum hereby calls on all lovers of democracy, peaceful coexistence, unity and religious harmony to reject the ticket in its entirety.

III. The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP)
a. That the PDP presidential ticket is representative of our religious diversity as a people.

b. The presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar is the only candidate among the candidates of the four leading political parties that has the knowledge and experience of managing the country at the presidential level. This gives him the advantage to set the ball rolling from day one.

c. That the PDP presidential candidate has a track record of working harmoniously with all classes of people across religious and ethnic divides.

d. That the PDP presidential candidate is a well-known talent hunter who has demonstrated capacity to hunt highly experienced talents across different sectors and bring them into government. This country needs highly talented people at this critical time to pull the country out of the doldrums and bring it back to the path of stability, security and prosperity.

RESOLUSIONS

The Forum therefore adopts the PDP and the Atiku/Okowa Presidential ticket as the right ticket to support in the 2023 presidential elections, as it addresses all the concerns of inclusiveness, fairness and national cohesion.

The Forum recommends for support the Atiku Abubakar/Ifeanyi okowa presidential ticket to all well-meaning Nigerians across the ethnic, sectional and religious diversities, in order to foster unity, peace, development and progress.

Signed:
PROFESSOR DOKNAN DD SHENI, OON

H.E. MUKHTARI SHEHU SHAGARI, CFR

Hehehe! They will always go for religion and region first before competence. Your choice anyway. Now over to the electorate. Undoubtedly, Nigeria is at a very critical state; over half of her population has sunk into multidimensional poverty and inflation is at an unprecedented level.

Leadership ineptitude and inutile; insecurity, loss of lives and property seem to be the order of the day. Untamed looting is now a norm. Basically, the APC regime has dragged Nigeria into unimaginable pain and hunger.

We cannot afford to gamble with our lives and that of generation unborn. History beckons on us to elect a President that is much more prepared, intentional about our welfare, and that properly understands the situation of our country.

Kikikiki
God knows I sometimes pity Atiku because the guy na like cloud without water.

This is not Northern Elders Forum

It is a group consisting of Dogara's fraction of the APC Christain group

Old news

Racoon:
Hehehe! They will always go for religion and region first before competence. Your choice anyway. Now over to the electorate.

And your drug baron symbolizes competence?

Make we see how Atiku go come win for Southern part and Middlebelt.


Shebi after Buhari another Fulani again.



We heard them...we know better now.

This is good news to well meaning Nigerian

Good

It's expected but that doesn't change the fact that Atiku wil remain a serial loser....

ObiDatti all the way!!!

We all know who the next president will be intern of political dominant but hatred and bitterness do not allow some people to realise the reality on ground and if care is not taking Nigerians will resume back to Era of Fulani bandit after 2023 election. It is funny for some so to call youths from a particular region planing the journey of presidency like starting a journey with a car of Flatt Tyres .

Racoon:
Hehehe! They will always go for religion and region first before competence. Your choice anyway. Now over to the electorate. Undoubtedly, Nigeria is at a very critical state; over half of her population has sunk into multidimensional poverty and inflation is at an unprecedented level.

Leadership ineptitude and inutile; insecurity, loss of lives and property seem to be the order of the day. Untamed looting is now a norm. Basically, the APC regime has dragged Nigeria into unimaginable pain and hunger.

We cannot afford to gamble with our lives and that of generation unborn. History beckons on us to elect a President that is much more prepared, intentional about our welfare, and that properly understands the situation of our country.

Atiku is the man

TimFisher2:





Make we see how Atiku go come win for Southern part and Middlebelt.


Shebi after Buhari another Fulani again.



We heard them...we know better now.

this is democracy, majority must continue to win while minority will always wail.
God bless Atiku the in-coming president of Nigeria

DSC7:
It's expected but that doesn't change the fact that Atiku wil remain a serial loser....

ObiDatti all the way!!!

this how obi will foolishly divide PDP votes to give Tinubu the advantage.
If Tinubu win this election I will blame Peter Obi.

Racoon:
Hehehe! They will always go for religion and region first before competence. Your choice anyway. Now over to the electorate. Undoubtedly, Nigeria is at a very critical state; over half of her population has sunk into multidimensional poverty and inflation is at an unprecedented level.

Leadership ineptitude and inutile; insecurity, loss of lives and property seem to be the order of the day. Untamed looting is now a norm. Basically, the APC regime has dragged Nigeria into unimaginable pain and hunger.

We cannot afford to gamble with our lives and that of generation unborn. History beckons on us to elect a President that is much more prepared, intentional about our welfare, and that properly understands the situation of our country.

This is hypocrisy at its finest staring at you straight in the eyes. Obi has been to Shiloh, been to The Experience, been to Unsual Praise concert, been to Paul Eneches’ church all within just one month, yet you didn’t cry religion and region. You Obi’s followers are one the most pretentious people. You are all blinded by populism and messiah syndrome.

If Atiku or any other candidate is jumping from one mosque to another you will all cry foul and say he’s playing religious card but Obi is doing it, you turn a blind eye and claim he’s for the people. I don’t know who’s more deluded, you his followers or Obi himself.

Hear this, Obi will never be Nigeria’s president if you continue playing this game, you can take that to the bank! Peace