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A northern leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Umaru Rofyan, has said that enlightened political elite from the zone were against the undemocratic posture adopted by the Northern Peoples Forum in making its case for the presidential flag-bearer of the party in the 2011 general elections.
Rofyan, a Special Adviser on Rural Development to Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, specifically criticised NPF for propagating politics of sentiment hinged on zoning, tribe and religion.
He reasoned that those sponsoring the presidential ambition of the former dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd), were simply advancing the course of regional and sentimental politics.
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