Pan-Northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, has warned the Presidency against any move to induce some prominent leaders in the region to support President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid in 2015.
The forum said this in Kaduna on Friday, through its Chairman, Alhaji Aliko Mohammed.
It alleged that some people, purportedly working for the Presidency, had gone round the region with a long list of prominent Northern leaders that would be heavily induced to work for the re-election ambition of Jonathan in the 2015 presidential poll.
The Niger State Governor and Chairman, Northern States Governor’s Forum, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, had raised the alarm that the Presidency had penciled down 400 prominent northerners that would be induced to secure their support for the President in his 2015 re-election bid.
Mohammed, in a statement, however, noted that the purported long list, which the organization had sighted, actually contained the names of respected leaders from the North.
He added that those advising the President to bribe some prominent northern leaders in exchange for their support were merely distracting Nigerians with Jonathan’s re-election bid as different from his performance in office .
He therefore called upon such persons to leave northern leaders out of the 2015 power play.
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