Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger
State said he was not prepared to open up on what led to the problem trailing
the NGF poll, adding that in every election, there must
be crisis which the participants must
resolve among themselves.
Speaking at the Northern Governors Forum meeting in Kaduna yesterday,he said, “If I am to tell
you what led to the problem in the NGF, we will stay here till tomorrow;
so I have no intention of doing that. I will only tell you that in whatever
process of election or whatever, there may be one person or two
that will be aggrieved.
“We seem to be developing a culture
where when you prepare for an election, you must also
prepare to contest in court. As I am speaking to you as
the chairman of NSGF, if you want my view, I will tell you we had an election;
we have a problem and we will solve it.”
On Yuguda’s threat never
to attend the meeting of the NSGF meetings, Aliyu said he (Yuguda) was free to
do so since the forum was a voluntary group.
He said, “The situation is that when
people feel aggrieved, you don’t go back retaliating on what they have said. He
(Yuguda) did not write to this meeting and it is a voluntary organisation and
we have resolved as a group to follow this informally. You (journalists) did
not hear any one of us replying him the way you heard him.”
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