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Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has said President Muhammadu Buhari has failed as far as tackling insecurity in Nigeria is concerned.

Addressing Journalists shortly after their meeting on national issues in Zaria, the Director, Advocacy and Engagements, of NEF, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmad noted that the administration of President Buhari appeared helpless in finding solutions to insecurity as well as poverty in the country. The meeting was convened by the chairman of the NEF, Prof. Ango Abdullahi.

According to NEF: “With this type of mindset, it is difficult to see how President Buhari can accept the challenge to radically improve his handling of our security situation”.

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On 2023 elections, the Forum said the region will only support candidate who can find solutions to problems bedevilling zone.

“Northern Elders Forum has refrained from comments on major developments relating to management of national security and governance because it is convinced that these are times which require the highest levels of responsibility and circumspection in the manner elders and leaders in the nation contribute to the search for solutions to the multiple problems which face the nation. It has become necessary and appropriate, however, to make public, the position of the Forum on important matters that affect the manner Nigerians live, and the future we must address.

“The Forum regrets that by any standard of judgment, the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari has failed the nation in the vital area of improving its security. Poverty, particularly in the North, and massive social security have worsened under this administration.  The relationship between insecurity and poverty is fundamental, but the administration does not appear to have any idea on what will provide relief or solution. It gives the Forum no pleasure to say that it had warned Nigerians that President Buhari lacked the will, the competence and commitment to lead it into a secure and prosperous future before the 2019 elections. It is shocking that in spite of unprecedented consensus among Nigerians that the administration requires a new resolve, approach and leadership in the fight against the nation’s multiple security challenges,