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Politics of Wednesday, 19 October 2022

Source: www.mynigeria.com

After meeting Tinubu, Atiku, Peter Obi, Arewa elders debunk rumors that they support one candidate

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The leadership of the Arewa Joint Committee has dismissed rife reports that its recent interaction with the leading presidential candidates going into the 2023 general elections was meant to endorse a particular one.

Speaking to the press on Tuesday, October 18, the committee said the exercise was not meant to throw weight behind any presidential candidates.

While Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC); Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo; Peter Obi of the Labour Party; Kola Abiola of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP); Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar were present at the event, the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso was absent.

This started rumors that the NNPP flagbearer did not show up at the event because the Arewa Joint Committee had chosen a preferred candidate.

The committee constituted The Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Arewa Consultative Forum, Jamiyyar Matan Arewa, Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation and Arewa Research Development Project and Arewa House (Centre for Historical Development and Research).

But the committee dismissed the claim, noting that the interaction objection is far above the endorsement of any candidate.

The chairman of the committee and secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Mallam Murtala Aliyu, debunked the claim at a media briefing in Kaduna.

Aliyu noted that the objective of the interaction is to establish the candidates' commitment to addressing the challenges confronting the region.

“We plan to extract and publish these commitments so that Nigerians may measure and evaluate candidates against them.

Our goal is to allow citizens to match candidates against their commitments to matters that are central to the interests of the North,” the chairman said.

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