The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has accused governors from the north of selling out the region by endorsing President Jonathan for second term.
The Forum Secretary, Professor Ango Abdullahi who stated this while speaking with newsmen at his office in Bauchi, said the Northern People had lost confidence in governors from the region, who in 2011 elections entered a secret deal with President Jonathan to contest in 2015.
Abdullahi said that the secret deal was later confirmed by President Goodluck Jonathan himself.
According to him, “the Northern Governors should be bold to tell President Jonathan that he has no right to contest election based on their earlier agreement reached for power rotation between the North and Southern parts of the country, under the auspices of the PDP.
“It was only recently that the Governor of Niger State, who is currently the Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, came out with the revelation that they had a secret deal with Jonathan to contest the 2011 elections”.
“Common sense should have dictated to PDP that there would be four years to pay the North back in 2011 but as you have already seen, the Governors sold it out, they sold us and the North out”, he lamented.
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