The former Governor of Zamfara State said this in a statement he personally signed and made available on Monday
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Baba-Ahmed, who said he was speaking in his personal capacity, made his position known in a series of tweets.
The organisation tabled the demand in a statement by its spokesperson, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.
The position of the NEF was contained in a speech by its Director, Publicity and Advocacy, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.
The NEF said this through its spokesman, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, in reaction to President Buhari’s position on the issues.
If the principal interest of acquiring power at the centre is to steer Nigeria and all Nigerians to a path of peace and development, why should the geography of power be such a caustic issue? If the interest of all Nigerians is of consequence why should the axial disposition of power be the minatory contention? Well, except the latent grail of obtaining power at the centre is to pursue regional and sectional agendas, I see no reason for the pyrotechnics and why we cannot come to an accord on where power should orbit in 2023.
The NEF said this on Wednesday through its spokesman, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, who spoke on Arise Television.
The forum was reacting to the recent cases of kidnapping, particularly the abduction of 317 schoolchildren from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Talata-Mafara local government area, in Zamfara State.
The NEF stated this on Saturday through its Spokesman, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, in a tweet.
No doubt, Nigeria is tottering on the precipice. This is perhaps one of the most precarious times in our democratic evolution since 1999. It is as if the emissaries of Hades are encamped in the country.
In a statement on Wednesday, the spokesman of the group, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, told the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, to rescind the ultimatum given to herders to vacate forest reserves in the state.
Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the Director of Publicity and Advocacy of NEF made the appeal in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has directed all legislative aides working in his office to submit their handover notes.
It could be recalled that for some years now, the National Assembly had been running a secret annual budget of over N130 billion without providing line by line items of the budget
The CoS announced his resignation in a statement on Monday.
THISDAY learnt that a disappointed Saraki was shocked to learn like every other person that it was Baba-Ahmed who read the communiqué of the group and subsequently became uncomfortable with the interpretations which immediately followed it and created the perception that he must have acted on the instructions of his principal.