Date: January 26, 2021, 06:27:54 PM
Ex-Generals, Govs, ministers regroup for 2019 battle: Politics : Nigerialog.com - Nigeria's Premier Online Forum
While dismissing the notion that the entire North is for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, he said “I don’t know how you came to that conclusion, because other aspirants are expressing their wish to contest, people are still aspiring. The question of someone becoming a consensus candidate for a whole area of the north does not make sense. In addition, the rule of multi party democracy, there will never be a consensus candidate anywhere in Nigeria or anywhere multi party is practiced. Otherwise the merit of multi party democracy is defeated. And that does not go with democracy if you come up with a consensus candidate. Consensus candidate means killing competition. Competition is the livewire of democracy.”