{"id":2017,"date":"2022-12-13T11:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T10:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:17:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T10:17:50","slug":"2023-northern-elders-urges-nigerians-to-vote-competency-and-capacity-during-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/2022\/12\/13\/2023-northern-elders-urges-nigerians-to-vote-competency-and-capacity-during-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Northern Elders Urges Nigerians to Vote Competency and Capacity During the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With few months to the 2023 elections, the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has urged Nigerians to vote for candidates with competence and capacity.<\/p>\n<p>NEF cautioned Nigerians against relying on sentiments while sacrificing competence and capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of NEF, Prof Ango Abdullahi, urged Nigerians to jettison ethnicity in deciding candidates to vote for in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke at a town hall meeting yesterday in Kaduna and was represented by the spokesperson of NEF, Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the 2023 elections would show if Nigerians are determined to fight for the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2023 election is going to test whether Nigerians are willing to fight for their country now or they are going to solve the problems of this country profoundly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t vote for anybody on sentiment. For the sake of our future and for the sake of our grandchildren, let us save this country, we must vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is irresponsible to vote for somebody because he bears your ethnic identity, vote for competency and capacity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He charged the government to ensure adequate security to enable Nigerians vote for their candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere there are security issues that are preventing you from voting, the government must secure the people so that they can go and vote and we must vote for the right people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"taboola-below-article-thumbnails1\" class=\" trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_alternating-thumbnails-b \" data-placement-name=\"Below Article Thumbnails1\">\n<div class=\"trc_rbox_container\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"trc_wrapper_57502\" class=\"trc_rbox alternating-thumbnails-b trc-content-hybrid \">\n<div id=\"trc_header_57502\" class=\"trc_rbox_header trc_rbox_border_elm\">\n<div class=\"trc_header_ext\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With few months to the 2023 elections, the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has urged Nigerians to vote for candidates with competence and capacity. NEF cautioned Nigerians against relying on sentiments while sacrificing competence and capacity. The Chairman of NEF, Prof Ango Abdullahi, urged Nigerians to jettison ethnicity in deciding candidates to vote for in 2023. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[490,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2023-elections-1200x684-1.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pci3ty-wx","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}