NEF spokesman supporting Obi lashes out at his candidate over London meetings

The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed who as been partially rooting for LP’s candidate Peter Obi has aken offence at his candidate holding meetings outside of Nigeria.

Baba-Ahmed questioned Nigerian politicians travelling abroad for critical meetings.

“Northerners are not the only ones in Europe and Asia. In the last few days, I saw Tinubu, Atiku, Ortom, Obi, Wike, and many others,” he tweeted on Saturday.

“We, they plan to govern, are the distractions? The deals they struck will be about how to handle us. Carve us out like carcass, and allocate powers and positions and resources to each other. Then they come back and set us to fight each other. It is all about them, and them alone

“Then they come back to Nigeria where we live with traffic and insecurity to ask us to trust them with power.

“What is it with London, Paris and Dubai that make them so attractive to our politicians when they want to discuss deals or untangle difficult matters? Just think how much it costs to go out of Nigeria to discuss Nigerian matters. Do we make too much noise? Are they afraid of us?”

Almost all the major presidential candidate—APC’s Bola Tinubu, PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, LP’s Obi—travelled out during the week to meet Rivers Gov. Nyesom Wike and his cohorts trying to sabotage the PDP.