By Deji Elumoye in Abuja
The North East Consultative Forum (NECF) and five other groups have endorsed the Chairman of Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Danjuma Goje, as a candidate for the Ninth Senate Presidency.
Rising from an emergency meeting held in Bauchi on Wednesday, the groups including North East Elders Mobilisation Forum, APC National Youth Caucus, Borno Discussion Circle, Gombe Political Associations and North East Youth Awareness for good governance, urged Goje to without further delay declare for the coveted position.
The groups have therefore written the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, about their endorsement of Goje.
In the letter, dated 17th April, titled: “North East Stakeholders Endorse Goje,” the conveners, Barrister Mustapha Saidu and Alhaji Bello Ambo, commended APC for zoning the Senate Presidency to the North East.
They said the zoning of the…