Alhaji Namadi Musa has said the Adamu Ciroma-led consensus committee was not self-appointed, saying it was the four northern presidential aspirants that approached the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) to pick a consensus candidate from among them.
Namadi Musa, who is the Kaduna State chairman of the Inspirational Leadership and Empowerment Initiative, one of the groups championing the actualization of the presidential ambition of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, spoke yesterday in Kaduna while reacting to Vice President Namadi Sambo’s criticism of the consensus candidacy of Atiku.
Musa, who was on the campaign team that saw to the emergence of the former Kaduna State governor, now vice president, as governor in 2007, further said it was NPLF that set up the Ciroma committee of nine to choose the northern consensus candidate. Sambo had while fielding questions from journalists in Kaduna on Friday dismissed Atiku’s northern consensus candidacy, arguing that he was picked by ‘a self-imposed group’.
But Musa said a lot had been said and written about the decision of the Ciroma committee with the aim of either discrediting the process or questioning the mandate of the committee to embark on the exercise on behalf of the North, even as he dismissed Sambo’s comment as the ranting of losers.
He also debunked the vice president’s claim that the nation was doing better because there was a doctorate degree holder as president and him as an architect at the helm and “with the two of them at the apex of the nation’s leadership, they would continue to design and construct policies that would make Nigeria one of the leading 20 economies in the world,” adding that “in spite of their education, there is no indication that they will achieve this tall order, given the state of power supply in the country, insecurity of lives and property in the Niger Delta and Borno state and the lack of direction of the government.”
“I want to praise the Ciroma committee for rising up to the challenge of leadership at a time when the north needed direction. Their action shows that there are a few good men in a country where people are not bound by the promises that they made.
“I also thank the trio of Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Aliyu Gusau as well as Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara state, for fulfilling their promise to respect the outcome of the search for consensus candidate. By so doing, they have demonstrated that it is not every member of PDP that violates an agreement,” he added.
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