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The Convener of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Professor Ango Abdullahi, has said Nigeria will be in chaos if either Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress or Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party wins the 2023 presidential election, stating that the duo have nothing to offer the country.

He said the presidential candidates of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi and that of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso are better, compared to Atiku and Tinubu.

He told Vanguard that Tinubu and Atiku had been around political circles for a long time without commensurate positives to show for it.

However, he noted that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who contested the APC presidential primaries or a former banker, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, who also aspired for the ticket in the PDP would have made a better President as technocrats.

Hence, Abdullahi, who was a former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria, said he would not support any of the candidates.

Abdullahi said he would rather tell Nigerians to brace for the trouble ahead of them should Tinubu or Atiku emerge as the next President.

“No, we still haven’t got the man who we think will fix Nigeria. What we have on (the) ground is not good enough. How can you look at Tinubu and Atiku to say they are the ones who will fix this country?

“They have been on the ground for the last 25, 30 years and so on. What have they done? What are we looking for? I was the one who encouraged a technocrat to join this consensus. You probably had seen Mohammed Hayatu-Deen in the group of people going around looking for consensus arrangements in PDP. I was one of those who encouraged him. We haven’t got the materials on the ground, unfortunately.

“Peter Obi, unfortunately, I don’t know him that much. He is a young man; he was the former governor of Anambra State and he is a businessman.

“He (Kwankwaso) is a good, young man. He started his politics with us and he is quite smart. No doubt about it. Of course, he had some of these debts that he acquired or he must have picked in other political formations and so on but clearly, he is one of the bright ones around. No doubt about that.

“I believe we have not had a good array of politicians. With due respect to some of them that one saw contesting, I am not being selfish here by referring to certain people like Prof. Osinbajo. He is a quality material but the political system will not tolerate him," he told Vanguard Newspaper.

Abdullah further stated there was nothing bad if Osinbajo contested against his supposed godfather, Bola Tinubu.

He continued: “What has it got to do with what Nigeria wants? Is he a slave to the former governor? I don’t understand this kind of analogy. Professor Osinbajo is a human being entirely on his own merit and his accomplishments are entirely his own and people should assess him as such.

“Those who needed his services asked for his services. When he served as the attorney general of Lagos State, he was invited by the political system of Lagos State. This is the way I look at it and when he became vice president, I understand it is the president/party that identified him as qualified and competent enough to be the vice president in the current dispensation.”

“Why shouldn’t he be because he served under XYZ? He should be identified as an individual for leadership in the country,” he added.

While asking Nigerians to prepare for the troubled days ahead should any of the candidates become president in 2023, Abdullahi said: “What I will tell Nigerians is that we are in trouble and the way out is for Nigerians to agree that Nigeria is in trouble and that the machineries that are on ground today, that are expected to find solutions to the challenges facing Nigeria are not appropriate and we have to go back to the drawing board to see what we can do to save the Nigeria of the future.

“I believe the politicians have failed. My belief is that the political class has over the years failed to produce the kind of quality leadership we require to deal with the problems of Nigeria and which means that we should look for quality materials, not necessarily within the mainstream political parties, from outside and there have been a lot of discussions in Nigeria recently about technocrats.”



https://saharareporters.com/2022/06/27/2023-nigeria-trouble-if-tinubu-or-atiku-becomes-president-%E2%80%94northern-elders-forum

VoteTinubu2023:
Waste of time and resources. All these efforts to get less than 1.5 million votes.


Vote Tinubu 2023. Vote APC.

I thought it was 500k votes . Has it increased to 1.5 million votes now

Endorsed Peter Obi yesterday. Summoned today. It's okay

Stephenmoka4:
Calculate the profits and loss from the ratio.

50: 50 (2.06 either)

103 for W1

none for W2

show me the way boss. With 100k, can I be making at least 50k monthly from these your games?

Seun:
Isn't anyone smart enough to notice that I did not actually defend Tinubu as alleged? Pointing out that a title is misleading does not constitute a defence of Tinubu. People are running mad because of this election. I've tried my best to be patient with people and to reason with them, especially on Twitter, but they keep misbehaving.

your implicit support for Tinubu both on nairaland and outside nairaland further unveils you as an APC apologist. Rest

I thought Seun was intelligent after all. Can't imagine someone disgracing himself on a world platform as robust as twitter. His tribal views and selective criticism should start and end here. His efforts to launch them on the microblogging platform would be perceived as unthoughtful. Information on that very saga can easily be found on the Internet but 'nairaland owner' doesn't even read or make research. Poor Seun

Mariangeles:
Your signature.

nairaland folks are so guilty
Join me in educating them na

Prayfortheworld:
I don cry tire
It's well

I lost over 23k dollars to ALT coins

una get money

Abujason:
Atiku is too smart not to even listen to the suggestion. The idea is dead on arrival. Where will he get the so much desired block votes from? Igbos don’t like him. North does not. SW, no go area. And in SS, Wike will be lucky to deliver his village for PDP.

But Atiku is welcome to deliver an easy victory to APC.

exactly my thought . They're deceiving atiku with Wike's faux popularity

Rilwayne001:
To think South Easterners are one of the most important pillars and pioneers of PDP from inception, more so, they’ve stood solidly behind the party and always voting it enmasse whenever the voting season comes, yet still they’re not considered worthy for the first two positions.

BTW, it’ll be 24years next year that southeast has been licking the boot of their norther counterparts in PDP, with nothing tangible to show for it.

It’s a pity.

gay Lord. We have missed you on this space

Aufbauh:
Jokers


The labour party doesn't even have a whole Governorship candidate in States like kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa, Bauchi etc.
If you don't understand what that mean then Congratulations!

Bashir don give this one script

plaindealer:
Point of correction, what about his office on NL, even the one on Twitter?

dry sha

Viraltrends123:
LOL, same Obi , I thought his people said PDP is now an evil party. Corruption is bad when it doesn't favour them, they were praising Buhari, when they thought he will pick Jonathan or Ameachi, LOL, Buhari is now lifeless

Obi will not win this election, but he will try to win after Atiku or Tinubu, then he would be 70 years old, let's see if his people will support old man presidency.

Just say you hate Yorubas, and would rather go with hausas, same with yorubas, Obi is over 60, he is not a youth, you can't compare Obi achievements with that of Tinubu in Lagos.

kindly state Tinubu's achievements

ArewaNorth:
Making blunder with ethno-religious bias statements will only kill the chances of ur candidate than selling him.
You guys need more round of General eletions to learn how to play smart political games!

what has your rounds of political sagacity earned you?

XaeV2:
These aren't no conditions You're just catching cruise.

I had hoped to read meaningful conditions mtcheew

you don't expect my candidate standards to conform with the next electorate's . I may have my reasons for requesting those conditions but cruise or no cruise, it still doesn't invalidate them

I am for a progressive and sustainable Nigeria. We have four big contestants for the position of the first citizen of Nigeria. We have Atiku in PDP, Kwankwaso in NNPP, Peter Obi in LP and Tinubu in APC.
My interest for this thread is in APC's candidate. Here are three conditions he must satisfy before I can confidently vote for him:

1. Bola Tinubu must be able to demonstrate a free hand drawing of a straight line

2. He must be able to fix thread in a needle

3. He must be able to type "I am fit to run" in an android phone without the aid of a personal assistant.


Please I am being objective here. I will still come up with conditions for other aspirants so people don't say am shifting the goal post

May God bless us all

Kriely:
It’s all stunt. Lol

Lawan will be the consensus but will withdraw for Tinubu since the governors zoned it to the South.

Just another way to do Yemi dirty.

you know

Niorte:
The man in the middle has the advantage and cognitive experience to take Nigeria to greater heights

why didn't he do it under buhari?

Yustash001:
If you are still thinking Tinubu won't get the ticket, then you are on a long thing..

I actually want him to clinch the ticket. Easy ride for atiku.

Mandate2023:
Lawan will do same soon, I wonder what will become of orji kalu .......he will return to that kuje prison soon


The only 2 candidate that can match atiku r Osinbajo and tinubu, others r failure in disguise I just hope yeebos will focus on obi so atiku don't get vote from there

false hope

l69l:
The disadvantage is that the android version is old

nothing wrong with outdated device

S9+ is far better than most recent mid range device

na the processor dey mad me sef.

I'm currently using s9+ and I can tell you for a fact it is by far better than these newly manufactured android devices.

seunmsg:
Why would Kwakwanso drop his presidential ambition for Peter Obi? Those who started the rumor of Peter Obi flying the presidential flag of NNPP are simply senseless. Kwakwanso formed NNPP to win Kano and further his presidential ambition. If Peter Obi Pandora want to be contest for president at all cost, he should join any of the existing useless parties or form his own party. Nobody owes him anything.

even an amateur political analyst knows that nnpp has been in existence before kwankwaso.

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FalseProphet1:

take a look at me tell me what you see

YahooG:
Goodnews,I just met my candle light!

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I use galaxy s9+ and I can confirm OP's assertion. I did a camera test with a colleague of mine that uses an iphone 7+ and I became ashamed of the result. Samsung really need to up their game in the camera aspect

Pretentious and materialistic, f•cked a wrinkled old man's dick for iPhone XS, f•cked a guy prior because he uses an 8+ and she wanted to be snapping with it. Oh well I found out all and ghosted.

sisisioge:


Thank goodness o...until the next episode!

Meanwhile, see how you sounded like a father welcoming a prodigal child...too bad her poor mom didnt know her daughter was visiting her own side before to save all the trouble you went through. This children self! They will not talk on time

I saw what you did there