Northern Group Condemns IBB's Endorsement Of Buhari

Prominent northern group, Northern Emancipation Network (NEM), has stated that the endorsement of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, by former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, raises moral questions.
On Monday, when Buhari visited Babangida, APC chieftain said the latter gave him his blessing in his quest to become next president.
Reacting in a press statement signed by it...s Coordinator, Abdulazeez Suleiman, yesterday, in Abuja, NEM said it was worried by unfolding events in the countdown to the general elections.
The group said: “Our worry is hinged on the many moral questions that surround the personality of General Buhari, who was imposed by the APC as representing the North in the presidential election.
“The most worrying is the nature of double standards that are now shaping Buhari’s characteristics, as he makes a fourth attempt at the presidency.”
Alleging that Buhari had issues with his wife for allegedly receiving gifts from Babangida, who toppled him in 1985, NEM queried Monday’s alleged endorsement of Buhari by Babangida, accusing the APC candidate of desperation.
“First, we find it quite unfortunate that the same Buhari is now, out of sheer desperation, turning to Babangida for political support,” NEM said, adding: “We were, therefore, amazed when reports said that Buhari had personally gone to seek support from IBB and Obasanjo, both of whom he once described as political enemies in an interview with Weekly Trust. Based on this and many other moral questions around Buhari, our group is compelled to reiterate its stand that he is not and cannot be the sole northern candidate for the presidency.”
Stating that NEM was concerned that certain desperation to take power in 2015 has made the northern political elite so blind as not to consider the quality of candidate that was hoisted by the opposition as the North’s sole candidate, the group frowned at recent claims for the adoption of Buhari as the North’s sole presidential candidate by a certain group of elders.
“The North should rather reciprocate the many efforts made by President Goodluck Jonathan to change the life of the ordinary northerner than go on a wild goose chase that could further darken its political future,” NEM insisted, even as it called on all well-meaning northerners to resist the temptation of dragging the region and its people into the personal war for ascendancy waged by its predator-elite.