Buhari vs Atiku: What will determine our votes - Northern elders

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- Northern Elders Council have disclosed the condition that will determine whom to support between Buhari and Atiku

- The group’s chairman said the candidates’ manifestos will determine who gets their support between the duo

- He said it is not appropriate to endorse candidates without knowing their clear-cut manifestos or programmes

The chairman of the Northern Elders Council, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has said that the programmes put forward by President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar would determine which of them the group would support in 2019.

The Punch reports that the NEC chairman said it is premature to endorse any presidential candidate without knowing his or her manifesto.

Yakasai said: “In my opinion, this is not the appropriate time to start making decisions about where the votes will go. Neither of the two candidates has published a clear-cut manifesto or programmes. I am advising that people wait for the programmes put forward by the candidates before we make our final choice.

“I was not even in Nigeria when the conventions of the parties took place. By the provision of the constitution of Nigeria, no organisation, other than a political party, is allowed legally to solicit for votes for any candidate.

“Those who are doing it are doing it against the law. The Peoples Democratic Party did their convention with 13 aspirants and one emerged. The APC did theirs also. It is a matter for Nigerians to make up their minds to decide whom they will vote for.”

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that Professor Danny McCain, ambassador, Global Scholars from the United States of America, said President Buhari and former vice president Atiku Abubakar must accept the outcome of the 2019 presidential election to avoid bloodshed in the country.

Speaking on Friday, October 12, in Abuja, at the 9th annual Independence lecture with the theme: “The Nigeria of our Dream,” organised by The Change we NEED Nigeria Initiative, McCain said every vote must count.

He said the outcome of the election must reflect the aspirations of the people. He further expressed optimism that the next election would be peaceful as demonstrated by the former president Goodluck Jonathan when he accepted defeat and stepped down.

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