“As a northerner, I am completely comfortable supporting Donald Duke because he is the best candidate available to us, not because he comes from the South,” he said.
“There is no sense in what he (Mr Baba-Ahmed) said. It is absolute nonsense,” Mr Atiku’s spokesman told Peoples Gazette.
The election has been marred by controversies following INEC’s refusal to upload results of polling units to its portal.
Mr Baba-Ahmed reckons that the North’s insistence on having a president of northern extraction in 2015 landed the region in big trouble upon its realisation.
