Vanguard reports with reference to its
reliable sources that many northers
politicians are determined to support Buhari
so as to return power to them.
The Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum
(ACF), Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, said that
power, next year, must shift to the North.
While President Goodluck Jonathan’s Senior
Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin
Okupe, expressed confidence that Nigerians
would not vote in 2015 on the basis of
ethnicity, Jonathan’s close confidant insisted
on the opposite.According to the source, who pleaded for
anonymity, since Buhari’s emerged the
“entire North” was to stand by the side of
the ex military Head of State.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senior
said that Jonathan’s supporters in the
region are already receiving threatening
messages.
“There is a serious change in the political
mood in the North since Buhari was elected
as the APC candidate last week. Right now,
the people do not care whether they are in
APC or PDP. All they are interested in is that
power must return to the North through the
election of the former Head of State.
“What is really worrying those of us who are
perceived to be pro-Jonathan’s governors or
supporters is the open threat messages
being made directly to our phones.
The northern governor showed the
journalist 2 of such messages written in
Hausa and English. The politician was
warned to not to betray the North for the
President. One of the messages came from a
ranking federal northern lawmaker while
the other was sent by someone the source
described as his “friend”.
Meanwhile the two pairs have been
introduced by both parties for the 2015
elections. The PDP will be represented by
Goodluck Jonathan and his running mate
Namadi Sambo and the APC – by
Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo.
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