{"id":1179496,"date":"2022-08-15T17:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/15\/i-do-not-sell-candidates-until-they-meet-my-standards-nef-spokesman-ahmed\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T17:14:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:14:35","slug":"i-do-not-sell-candidates-until-they-meet-my-standards-nef-spokesman-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/15\/i-do-not-sell-candidates-until-they-meet-my-standards-nef-spokesman-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"I Do Not Sell Candidates Until They Meet My Standards \u2013 NEF Spokesman, Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_827712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-827712\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-827712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hakeem Baba-Ahmed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has renounced any involvement in promoting Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to Northerners.<\/p>\n<p>Baba-Ahmed claimed that he can only persuade Northerners to support presidential candidates who satisfy his own criteria for a prospective good leader.<\/p>\n<p>He responded to a social media user who claimed that he had sold Obi to the Northerners.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Twitter user, Baba-Ahmed would gain from Obi\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Hardship Doesn\u2019t Know Tribe, Religion; Follow Leaders With Verifiable Track Records \u2013 Peter Obi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Twitter user had written: \u201cYou need to understand that Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed undoubtedly benefits more when Obi\/Datti wins the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, he needs to sell obi to Northerners to achieve that, thus, he is asking South East leaders to condemn the attack so that he can tell Northerners that Obi can be trusted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Baba-Ahmed tweeted: \u201cI do not sell candidates until they meet my standards of potential in good leadership. There is nothing in it for me personally\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hakeem Baba-Ahmed Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has renounced any involvement in promoting Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to Northerners. Baba-Ahmed claimed that he can only persuade Northerners to support presidential candidates who satisfy his own criteria for a prospective good leader. He responded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1179498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}