No right-thinking Nigerian’ll support Igbo presidential candidate -Buhari’s ex-aide Sumaila

A former Special Assistant to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), on Assembly Matters, Abdurrahman Sumaila, says right-thinking Nigerians won’t endanger their lives to support the candidature of any South-East politician vying for the presidency in 2023.

Sumaila made this known in a statement he issued to newsmen in Kano on Thursday.

“With these atrocities committed by the South-East people on record, how can Nigerians entrust them to govern us? I am sure not a single right-thinking Nigerian will endanger his life to support the candidature of any South-East politician contesting for presidency come 2023 general elections,” he said.

He also stated that it has now become evident that the goal of the assaults is to destabilize the country, noting that “the perpetrators of the attacks must understand that if the country is destabilized, nobody, including the culprits, will be able to leave.”

As a result, he encouraged elders in the South-East to openly condemn the continued attacks by suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, or risk being accused of complicity in the heinous crime.

According to the ex-presidential adviser, Nigerians will regard the Southern elite as complicit in the armed militia attacks in the region unless they clarify their position.

“The elite in the South-East should borrow a leaf from their northern counterparts such as Arewa Consultative Forum and Northern Elders Forum, who have been persistently condemning the activities of Boko Haram fighters and bandits in the North,” he said.