{"id":81516,"date":"2021-06-03T08:53:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T07:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=81516"},"modified":"2021-06-03T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T07:53:34","slug":"why-no-right-thinking-nigerianll-support-igbo-presidential-candidate-ex-buharis-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/why-no-right-thinking-nigerianll-support-igbo-presidential-candidate-ex-buharis-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Why no right-thinking Nigerian\u2019ll support Igbo presidential candidate \u2013 Ex-Buhari\u2019s aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A former Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Assembly Matters, Abdurrahman Sumaila, says right-thinking Nigerians won\u2019t endanger their lives to support the candidature of any South-East politician vying for presidency in 2023.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sumaila made this known in a statement he issued to newsmen in Kano on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith these atrocities committed by the South-East people on record, how can Nigerians entrust them to govern us? I am sure not a single right-thinking Nigerian will endanger his life to support the candidature of any South-East politician contesting for presidency come 2023 general elections,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He also noted that it has now become clear that the motive behind the attacks is to turn the country into anarchy, regretting that \u201cthe perpetrators of the attacks must understand that if the country is turned chaotic, then nobody including the perpetrators can escape\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, urged elders in the South-East to publicly denounce the ongoing attacks by suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra or be considered complicit in the dastardly act.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-presidential aide said until the Southern elite make their position definite, Nigerians would consider them part and parcel of the attacks being carried out in the region by armed militia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe elite in the South-East should borrow a leaf from their northern counterparts such as Arewa Consultative Forum and Northern Elders Forum, who have been persistently condemning the activities of Boko Haram fighters and bandits in the North,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Assembly Matters, Abdurrahman Sumaila, says right-thinking Nigerians won\u2019t endanger their lives to support the candidature of any South-East politician vying for&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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