 A very good evening to you. I am Loretta Chirgo with News Update. The presidential flag bearer of the New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP, Rabya Kwonkoso, has voted for President Ulusha Gwobasanjo and the leader of the Pan-Nida Delta Forum, Pandef, Chief Edwin Clark, for endorsing the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Ulby, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The former Kano State Governor, while reacting to the endorsement of Ulby, said the two elder statesmen had, in his word, disgraced themselves by endorsing Ulby as it was wrong for any person who is considered a statesman to go about endorsing candidates ahead of the February 25 presidential election in Nigeria. The NNPP presidential candidate, however, insisted that the endorsements were based on religious and ethnic sentiments and would have no effect on the electorate who are a lot wiser now. Nigerians are not waiting for you or any other person. Nigerians will take decision on their own. And many people don't even understand that in northern politics, nobody owns voters. Voters don't have any forum to meet. Love and support goes around like virus. And once people take decision on a particular candidate, I can tell you nothing will change whether somebody endorses from the north or from the south or from outside the country. It doesn't matter. And I want to advise our leaders, please, if you see them, you tell them that they should not stop disgracing themselves. We have so much respect for them. If you say you don't like me, then you have problem. If I become that old and at that level, and I'm sure the same with everybody, won't come and start playing party politics and especially politics that has to do with religion. But as a belief in this country, these endorsements have to do with ethnicity plus religion. And I think some people should grow beyond that.