Northern Elders Forum, a body without credible membership – Presidency

Ebun Francis| The presidency on Sunday described the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) as a body that lacks credible membership.

Reacting to statement credited to the forum which said earlier on Sunday that the Buhari government has failed to secure the country, Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a statement described NEF as a “one-man army” and accused Ango Abdullahi, the forum’s chairman, of showing antipathy against President Muhammadu Buhari before the 2019 election.

Adesina said, “Hearing that title, you would think the body was a conglomeration of true elders. But the truth is that NEF is just Ango Abdullahi, and Ango Abdullahi is NEF.”

“It is a quasi-organization that boasts of no credible membership, and its leader is akin to a General without troops.

“Before the 2019 presidential election, the one-man army called NEF had shown its antipathy against President Muhammadu Buhari and its preference for another candidate. They all got beaten together.

“NEF is merely waving a flag that is at half-mast. President Buhari steadily and steadfastly focuses on the task of retooling Nigeria, and discerning Nigerians know the true state of the nation. They don’t need a paper tiger to tell them anything.”