A report by New Telegraph indicates that political gladiators in the northern part of the country are warming up in preparation for the 2019 election.
According to the report, their early preparations are hinged on the possibility that President Muhammadu Buhari may not run for a second term due to health conditions and his failed techniques he uses to govern the country.
Unnamed sources quoted in the report said that the northerners are saying that they have been cheated of their birthright since 1998. Meanwhile power belongs to the north for the next 10 years.
The major players here are Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Governor Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State, Governor Yari of Zamfara State, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State and Governor Dankwanbo of Gombe State who is a member of the opposition People’s Democratic Party.
These Northern governors who see Buhari’s second term bid as a chance for the north to rule for eight years are all waiting for the time, except for Governor Dankwambo who is not in the same party with them.
The Spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Professor Ango Abdullahi, who dropped the hint on Sunday night, said that the forum only supported the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2015 election, because it fielded Buhari as its Presidential candidate.
The need for replacement, came against the backdrop of the mass hunger, and poverty, that has attended the Buhari’s Presidency.
The former Governor, predicted that Buhari would lose the coming election, if he decides to run for the Presidency in 2019, because he is not just politically unreliable, but he will also be hampered by limited resources, unless he is sponsored by foreign powers.
According to him, the level of poverty in the country, and the prevailing awareness, will limit the President’s access to the treasury, in order to fund his campaign.
“Unless he decides to fund it with recovered looted funds, the amount which Nigerians do not know, there is nowhere he can get the kind of money to run for the Presidency, after losing the goodwill that he enjoyed from the people,” Balarabe added.
Also, a Member of the House of Representatives in the Second Republic, and a Social Critic, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, described Buhari, as a monumental failure as President.
“Although, I have not heard of plans to replace him, and field another Northerner in 2019, I will not be surprised if this happens.
“President Buhari has been a monumental failure, and the North shouldn’t support him in 2019, if it wants to retain power. Anti-corruption has always been the hallmark of Northerners in government, but this government is the most corrupt in the history of Nigeria.
“All Northern leaders, from Tarka, to Aminu Kano, and Sardauna, are not nepotistic, but the Buhari administration is the most nepotistic that has ever been since independence.
“So, the North is justified culturally, politically, and morally, to replace Buhari in 2019, if it chooses to do so.
“The North has been categorical when it wants power. It also didn’t hesitate when to let it go, and when it wanted it back, it said so categorically. Now, it must show clearly, that it wants to retain power, by replacing Buhari,” Mohammed said.
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