- Ex-Niger Delta militants have vowed not to vote for President Buhari in 2019
- Buhari is the APC's presidential candidate for 2019 general elections
- The ex-militants alleged that the president disappointed the youth in the Niger Delta region
National Coalition of Niger Delta Ex-Agitators, (NCNDE-A), under the leadership of Eshanekpe Israel, has said it would not support President Muhammadu Buhari's re-election bid in 2019.
The Sun reports that the group said the president has disappointed them and the entire Niger Delta.
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NAIJ.com gathered that the group said President Buhari has shown enough disdain for the youths and ex-militants under the aegis of the NCNDE-A, noting that the group worked tirelessly to install Buhari with the promise to better the lots of members of the group in patronage and develop the Niger Delta for growth and empowerment of the youths from the region.
“Rather than reward hard work and loyalty to him by members and leaders of the NCNDE-A, president Buhari, engaged in selective patronage, along tribal lines,” he said.
He added that the coalition is discussing with “a better and more reliable candidate for the 2019 presidential election,” reiterating that it is “fed up with a government that lacks vision and purposeful leadership.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had previously reported that the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) said it is not in a hurry to endorse either President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), or the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, ahead of the 2019 presidential election.
The secretary -general of the ACF, Anthony Sani, in an interview with The Punch, stated that the northern body was of the view that there were other presidential candidates of northern extraction from other political parties who might need endorsement too.
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According to Sani, the forum cannot afford to ignore the other candidates at the expense of Buhari or Atiku.
He noted that the emergence of both candidates from the northern region was heartening, adding that it would make irrelevant the age-old politics of identity. The ACF secretary said this would pave the way for “real issues of genuine concern to ordinary Nigerians.”
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Source: Naija.ng