BY TOM MOSES
The list of political stakeholders in Nigeria supporting the presidential aspiration of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) yesterday increased following the decision by the National Councilors’ Forum of Nigeria, an umbrella organization of all the councilors in Nigeria to formally adopt him.

The councilors who met in Uyo, the Akwa-Ibom State capital to decide which of the presidential candidates they should support could however not substantiate on their choice of Buhari as some of the national executive members were not present at the meeting causing the meeting to be rescheduled for next week.

National Secretary of the Forum, Mr. Christopher Edemekong while speaking with the Saturday Vanguard on the issue, confirmed that the executive members of the forum would meet next week in Abuja to take a decision on the presidential candidate the councilors in the country would support.

Giving an insight into the expected outcome of the meeting, Edemekong said “members of the Forum from the 8,812 political wards in the 774 local government areas of the country want to be actively involved in the political process that will usher in the next dispensation by taking a decision before the presidential election” stressing that the councilors would not sit on the fence at this critical moment in Nigeria’s history.