A former representative of Kaduna Central in the senate, Mr Shehu Sani, has said that the recent visit by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023, Mr Atiku Abubakar to former Nigerian heads of state northern extraction was part of a plot to regroup northern political forces to challenge President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
Recall that the former vice president had in the last two weeks visited former military heads of state General Ibrahim Babangida and General Abdulsalami Abubakar as well as former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking on the matter on his X account, Sani described the visit as “surreptitiously a new attempt” to rally support “to challenge and evict President Tinubu’s government in 2027.”
However, he said the project would crash like a pack of cards.
Sani called on the everyday northerner to “reject these faces and their plots” for “they have nothing to offer.”
The post reads: “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.
“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.
“The Daura homage of the disgruntled and the obsessed will fail. Our people in the North should reject these faces and their plots. They have nothing to offer. From the abandoned Baro Port, Ajaokuta, Lake Chad basin refiling and Mambilla hydropower, they failed.
“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.”
