A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district in the National Assembly, Sen. Shehu Sani, has kicked against the attack launched on the Prof. Ango Abdullahi-led Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), by the Presidency.
The NEF, led by a former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Ango Abdullahi had, over the weekend, described the current administration as a ‘failure’.
The NEF, angered by the spate of insecurity leading to the incessant killings, kidnapping and banditry in the country, said it warned Nigerians before the 2019 general elections that President Muhammadu Buhari had nothing to offer them.
Despite several calls by Nigerians for the change of tactics in the fight against insurgency and other criminalities, President Buhari has refused to change his service chiefs who are overdue for retirement.
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But reacting, President Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, described the NEF as a ‘one-man business’.
Adesina was quoted as saying, “But the truth is that NEF is just Ango Abdullahi, and Ango Abdullahi is NEF. It is a quasi-organization that boasts of no credible membership, and its leader is akin to a General without troops.”
However, reacting to the tirade against the NEF, on Monday, Shehu Sani, on Twitter urged the President Buhari led administration to accept ‘NEF’s truth.
He wrote, ”Attack on Northern Elders is allergy to truth. If Professor Ango Abdullahi is a General without a troop,the ones with troops are unable to save us from the menace of kidnappings & killings.
“The Govt embrace the bitter, uncomfortable & inconvenient truth of the elders & make amends.”
