“If you must be a Northerner who’s better than all the candidates; for us, that’s the bottom line.”
The Northern Elders Forum said it was cauting against profiling and targeting all Fulani as terrorists.
Mr Peller said he disagreed with NEF’s position on grounds that equity, fairness and equality must not be cast off in the quest for power.
Governor Abdullahi Sule says northerners will resist southerners’ attempt to force VAT collection by states and 2023 presidency on them.
The North has the population to dominate Nigeria for decades, says the Northern Elders Forum, amid calls that the 2023 presidency should be zoned to the South.
Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime would have completely “wrecked” Nigeria by 2023.
Northern Elders Forum has accused southern governors of demanding, in a wrong way, the mandate to produce Nigeria’s president in 2023.
