…alleges recent visits to Buhari in Daura by Atiku, El-Rufai, others part of plot
. Says ‘it’s too early It’s too early for desperate, power hungry Northern elite to plot to return to power
. Warns ‘attempt to whip up Northern sentiment for political gains dangerous’
Samuel Adesola, Abuja
Former lswmaker who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, on Monday, alleged that the recent meeting of Northern politicians with former President Muhammadu Buhari is part of the strategic moves to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
On Sunday, Buhari hosted former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, less than 24 hours after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar paid a similar visit to the immediate past president in his Daura, Katsina State, residence.
Just like Atiku, El-Rufai has an axe to grind with the ruling All Progressives Congress in his home state of Kaduna and at the Federal level.
Reacting, Sani, who is a civil rights activist and social critic, described the move by these politicians as an effort to regroup Northern political forces for the purpose of the 2027 general elections.
He however dismissed their moves as dead on arrival, stressing that it would ultimately fail.
Sani in a post via Facebook on Monday, deplored the attempt to revive Buhari’s political influence and mobilize support.
He warned against stirring Northern sentiment without regard for the potential chaos it could cause in the entire country.
According to him, “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. They want to resurrect Buhari’s political charm, fanaticism and mobilise the gullible to another hollow and bewildering end. They want to stoke up and light up the Arewa sentiment without considering the inferno it would eventually generate.
“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 was at its 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. 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 had 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 hydro power, 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.”
