{"id":192501,"date":"2020-02-10T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=192501"},"modified":"2020-02-10T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:30:08","slug":"youre-a-general-without-troops-presidency-fires-back-northern-elders-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=192501","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re a General without troops&#8217; &#8211; Presidency fires back Northern Elders Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Presidency has launched a counter-attack on the Prof. Ango Abdullahi-led Northern Elders Forum, NEF.<\/p>\n<p>NEF had on Sunday described the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as a total failure, adding that it warned Nigerians before 2019 election that Buhari has nothing to offer.<\/p>\n<p>NEF said Buhari has not been able to handle the security, economic and other biting issues facing the nation.<\/p>\n<p>However, reacting in a statement signed by Femi Adesina and made available to DAILY POST on Sunday, the Presidency described the forum as a one business.<\/p>\n<p>It said, \u201cProfessor Ango Abdullahi on Sunday signed a long-winding statement on many issues relating to the North, and purportedly to the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former vice chancellor signed the statement under the banner of Northern Elders Forum (NEF). Hearing that title, you would think the body was a conglomeration of true elders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the truth is that NEF is just Ango Abdullahi, and Ango Abdullahi is NEF. It is a quasi-organization that boasts of no credible membership, and its leader is akin to a General without troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dBefore the 2019 presidential election, the one-man army called NEF had shown its antipathy against President Muhammadu Buhari, and its preference for another candidate. They all got beaten together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNEF is merely waving a flag that is at half-mast. President Buhari steadily and steadfastly focuses on the task of retooling Nigeria, and discerning Nigerians know the true state of the nation. They don\u2019t need a paper tiger to tell them anything.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has launched a counter-attack on the Prof. Ango Abdullahi-led Northern Elders Forum, NEF. NEF had on Sunday described the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as a total failure, adding that it warned Nigerians before 2019 election that Buhari has nothing to offer. NEF said Buhari has not been able to handle the security, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2658,37,41,3761,1223],"class_list":["post-192501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-a","tag-boko-haram","tag-buhari","tag-insecurity","tag-nef"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}