The Northern Elders Forum has lamented the division that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has caused.
Spokesman of the group, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed who made this assertion while speaking during an interview on Arise television on Friday, lamented that Buhari’s government had played tribal politics to a dangerous level.
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He also stated that the present leaders have run the country aground while calling on Nigerians to ensure that consideration of tribe does not determine the emergence of a president, governor, or any other leader in 2021.
Reacting to a resolution by southern governors that the presidency should come from the south in 2023, Baba-Ahmed said the north is not opposed to the call, but warned that it would be setting a dangerous precedent for the nation’s constitutional democracy when the president has to emerge based solely on the part of the country he/she comes from.
According to him, Nigerians deserve a president that will carry all Nigerians along, and not a tribalistic one
“Tribal politics not good for this country”, he stated.
