Northerners can’t afford another Buhari as President in 2023 —NEF

The Northern Elders’ Forum has expressed that the region will only vote for a competent president regardless of where he comes from in the 2023 presidential election in the country.

This was made known in a statement by NEF’s Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed in an interview with newsmen on the sideline of the meeting of northern leaders of thought and groups held at the Arewa House, Kaduna on Saturday.

Baba-Ahmed noted that the group won’t repeat the same mistake of voting for just any candidate as done to President Muhammadu Buhari, based on sentiment in 2015.

The Forum described Buhari as a disappointment to not only the North but the entire country.

He expressed that a northerner and his southern counterpart have equal rights to vie for the nation’s exalted office in the 2023 presidential race.

Baba-Ahmed maintained that no northern presidential candidate should take the region for granted in the 2023 race, pointing out that that was how the region ended up with what he described as the “Buhari mistake”.