The Northern Elders Forum has criticized meetings held in London by the Presidential Candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Labour party and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in London last week.
Spokesperson of the group, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, in a series of tweets said the politicians went out of the country to hold meetings on how to allocate powers, positions and resources for themselves.
He wrote: “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.”
“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.”
It can be recalled that Atiku met with Wike to resolves their differences. Wike also met with the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in company of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State among others.
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?”
