We Have Not Endorsed Any Candidate—Northern Elders Forum

<h4>We Have Not Endorsed Any Candidate<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that against the growing insinuations in several quarters that the north has thrown its supports to one of popular candidates in the 2023 presidential election&comma; Dr&period; Hakeem Baba Ahmed&comma; national publicity secretary of Northern Elders Forum has disclosed that it has not endorsed any candidate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Speaking on Channels TV political programme Tuesday evening&comma; Ahmed said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are still watching and we are going to scrutinize all candidates&period; We are watching all the candidates as they campaign round the country&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ahmed noted that the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">Northern Elders Forum<&sol;a> frowns at deploying religion or faith to cajole stakeholders saying &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You cannot impress us with faith&period; We are not impressed with ethnic colouration&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He emphasized that the Northern Elders Forum will not betray its trust and obligation to the north and Nigeria stressing that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Once you say you are an elder&comma; it means a lot&period; Lots of people look unto you&comma;” he stated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He reminded candidates that power goes to where the votes are and they must recognize this fact in the course of their plans and strategies&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; Ahmed noted that since President Buhari has messed up the mandate handed him since 2015 and created lots of crises in the system&comma; the north are united in ensuring that the country votes a leader with capacity to deliver democracy dividends to the citizens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;