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The spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, has met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his home in Abeokuta, Ogun State, to strategise for the 2019 presidential election.

The meeting, which held last Thursday between the NEF Chairman, Ango Abdullahi, and Obasanjo, was meant to agree on a possible consensus candidate, a source informed The PUNCH on Sunday.

It was learnt that the parley, which also had in attendance two other NEF , deliberated about a suitable northern candidate that could attract massive from all parts of the country in the 2019 elections.


It was learnt that the meetings were parts of the moves to unite elders of the six zones in the country to present a common front in the 2019 presidential election.

Investigations showed that the meetings were also aimed at proffering solutions to security challenges in the country.


The PUNCH gathered that the participants discussed the future of the country under a dynamic leader and how the NEF could partner other stakeholders across the country to ensure the election of a new candidate other than President Muhammadu Buhari.

The source said, “Ango Abdullahi actually visited Obasanjo in Abeokuta along with two other men. Their discussion, as you rightly guessed, bordered on the 2019 elections and the need to field a dynamic candidate who would be acceptable to the North and other regions of the country because the North is no longer comfortable with the current leadership.”

Also, a top politician who wished to remain anonymous said Abdullahi had another meeting with some elders of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere.

He said, “Ango Abdullahi has met with Obasanjo and Afenifere as part of the efforts to save this country. They discussed 2019 elections and the recent killings which have mostly affected Nigerians living in the North.


“I think there is a general agreement that things are not going fine and something needs to be done because both North and South are feeling the effects of the bad governance.”

When ed, Abdullahi said he attended both meetings alone. In a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja on Sunday, he said the meetings were parts of consultations ahead of the 2019 general elections.

Although he declined to go into details of the separate meetings, he said issues such as Nigeria’s security and events leading up to the 2019 general elections formed part of discussions.

In response to a question on the essence of the meeting he held with the former President, Abdullahi said, “I just wanted to see him (Obasanjo). Before then, I also met with elders of Afenifere; it is already in the papers.”

Asked what the essence of the meeting was, he simply said, “Consultations.”


He was asked if he was running for the Presidency, he responded, “I am not. I did in the past when I was much younger. I am an old man now. I don’t think I can stand the rigours of the office of the President. I have ed that age now. We are just making consultations around the country.”


When he was asked if the consultations had anything to do with the 2019 elections, he said, “Yes, it does. A lot of things were discussed including 2019; we talked about all sorts of things that have to do with the security of Nigeria and all that. Thank you.”

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/punchng.com/ango-abdullahi-meets-obasanjo-over-2019-polls-killings/amp/

Northern elders forum, Arewa consultative Forum have all gone under in the last 4 years, waiting to be activated when a southern president is elected.

Igbo, yoruha maje una come see oooo.

https://grandmarketsquare.com/ango-abdullahi-meets-obasanjo-over-2019-polls-killings/

E DON START!

DISREGARD OBJ AT YOUR OWN PERIL

I'M SURE JONATHAN WON'T DARE THAT IN HIS NEXT LIFE

Buhari is now on his own

Buhari is a political orphan

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There is fire on the mountain!!

I SAID IT. AT EveryTime It Will Still End Up With Northern Candidates. nef Has Never Endorse Any Southern Candidate oVa To You ohanaeze. AFTER All Consultation buhari Will Still Rig Himself In, Even If Nigeria Can Stop Him Rig, Buhari That We All Know Will Never Hand Over Power. But I Dare Him To Try It

Meeting upon meeting

APC stupid pigs keeps screaming OBJ is now irrelevant, but he was relevant in 2015. Am so sorry for those fools.

Any alignment to send PMB back to Daura in 2019 is a welcome development.

Meanwhile, Obasanjo has never failed to bring down or deliver a presidential candidate. The odds are in favour of OBJ to win and PMB to lose.

The North Central should never allow themselves to be used form padding northern votes this time around

Back to daura will trend on twitter during the 2019/elections and that's gonna influence people to vote out the dullard

I have my PVC. Do you?

Senselin:
Bubu is also a former General, so how does going to Ota Farm help I guess it is all for the election.

Don't for get, General get level bros

Hrm... neither these Northern leaders nor Obasanjo are currently in command of Nigeria's security forces... The person who was voted in to handle these matters has been MIA for a while...

“I think there is a general agreement that things are not going fine and something needs to be done because both North and South are feeling the effects of the bad governance.”

Nigeria has never had it this bad.

"19,890 documented deaths have been recorded in Nigeria since June 2015."
- US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

I want to see the leaders agree on a common front which is restructuring with a common constitution that seek the greater good of the ordinary Nigerians. This should be done with a time frame while the next young president usher in the new constitution and fresh vibes to governance anything below this playing to the gallery

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anything to kick that dullard out of office is welcome idea as far it does not involved blood

Anything for them to do to push Bhar commot for seat is welcomed.
In 2019, power must change hands at the Federal level.

nairaman66:
There is fire on the mountain!!

and no one seems to be on d run

Flexherbal:
“I think there is a general agreement that things are not going fine and something needs to be done because both North and South are feeling the effects of the bad governance.”

Tinubu thinks otherwise

Coming soon: french president emmanuel macron to visit fela african shrine in ikeja and to pay respect to the late legend, will the dullard boldly appear in african shrine?