By Ologeh Joseph Chibu
A section of Northern politicians are working hard to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani has said.
He argued that the recent visit of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to former President Mohammadu Buhari in Katsina was part of the plot to take power away from Tinubu in the next Presidential election.
Apart from Atiku, some APC chieftains have equally visited Buhari in Katsina. Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has also recently visited the former President.
While Atiku is a leading opposition figure, El Rufai is believed to have fallen out with the President having lost his ministerial nomination. ElRufai particularly had never supported Tinubu until shortly before the All Progressives Congress, (APC) primary.
The two politicians visited during Sallah, the Muslim holiday. Atiku lost the Presidential election in a bitter contest which has seen him persistently attack the policies of the President.
The APC candidate Tinubu secured 8,794,726 votes to defeat Abubakar who came second with 6,984,520 votes. Sani said the politicians were prepared to use Buhari’s charm to mobilise the North against Tinubu in the 2027 Presidential election.
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“The recent visits by some prominent Northern politicians to Daura appears to be the usual Eid homage, but looking deeper and beyond the facade, it’s surreptitiously a new attempt to build a strong northern alliance using ex-President Buhari as a rallying point to challenge and evict President Tinubu’s Government in 2027. It’s a regrouping of Northern political forces for the next general election. A project that will eventually kiss the dust,’ Sani said. The former Senator had fallen out with El Rufai believed to have edged him out as a Senator replacing him with the current Governor of Kaduna state who is currently at daggers’ drawn with his processor. Both Shehu Sani and Uba Sani were allies in the pro-democracy struggle against the military despot of late Sani Abacha.
Sani said the Daura homage of the ‘disgruntled and the obsessed’ will fail. He said the North should reject them adding that they have nothing to offer. He said from the abandoned Baro Port, Ajaokuta, Lake Chad basin refiling and Mambilla hydropower, they have failed the people.
“They came to power when the North was in the hands of terrorists and left it in the joint hands of terrorists and Bandits. The Northern Talakawa should reject their antics.”
Shehu Sani said “They want to resurrect Buhari’s political charm, and fanaticism and mobilise the gullible to another hollow and bewildering end. They want to stock up and light up the Arewa sentiment without considering the inferno it would eventually generate
He wrote further on his social media platform “The same Buhari that led Nigeria for eight years and left the North worse than he met it. It’s too early to forget. By the time he left power, poverty and insecurity were at their peak than at any time in Nigeria’s history. They had power and wasted it; what do they want to do with it again?
“A Southerner is in power just for one year. It’s too early for the desperate and power-hungry northern elite to start plotting. The South never did that to Buhari. Their intended action has the capacity of ruining the democratic process and wrecking the fragile unity of the country when the South is awakened to this reality.
“Their obsession with power is condemnable. Opposition to Tinubu from the point of policies, promises and programs of his administration is a democratic right of any Nigerian. People have the right to speak and criticize the Government. But attempts to whip up Northern sentiments to achieve their political ends is a dangerous political experiment and expedition at this material time.”
He added, “No serious southerner challenged Buhari for eight years; these power-drunk Northern politicians are dragging the region to a new political journey through a land mine.
“Buhari’s reign ensured nepotistical placement, installation and dominance of Northerners at strategic positions of authority and power for eight years. Results have shown that they only enriched themselves, pillaged the economy of the country and pauperised our country.
