The Northern Elders Council, NEC, has faulted the claims by the former ADC to General Muhammadu Buhari. Major Mustapha Jokolo, rtd, that the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, saying that as a failed soldier, Jokolo’s pastime was now to run people down.
Wondering how, Jokolo could describe Sambo as an electoral liability, NEC said that the Vice President had served Kaduna State as commissioner a number of times before he won election as governor of the state with ‘’an overwhelming majority,’’ hence he ‘’cannot be said to be an electoral liability except by people like Jokolo for reasons of pecuniary grudge.”
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A statement signed by the Chairman of NEC, Malam Tanko Yakasai on the issue read in part,

‘’Given my age, pedigree and political experience, it will be out of place for me to trade words with Mustapha Jokolo’, whose truncated career as a soldier and deposed traditional ruler render him irrelevant, misguided and frustrated even as he struggles to remain in the limelight.

‘’His chosen medium to proffer advice on sensitive national issues to President Goodluck Jonathan is most inappropriate and indicative of the mischief that motivated him.

‘’By the same token, his advisory role should have been made available to his former military master who has thrown his hat into the ring of politics without the required sincere counselling hence his record of failure in each attempt to gain high office. It is quite obvious that Jokolo can only add nuisance value to national discourse since he has chosen the easier road to cheap popularity by rumbling incoherently to the press.

‘’In fact, Namadi Sambo is a political asset by any standard. As an ex-soldier, Jokolo wore the military uniform which symbolizes national unity and integration. The uniform gives every soldier a unique identity of being a Nigerian and not an ethni