Shaking The Status Quo In The North To Give PDP A Staggering Win
The Oasis Reporters
April 13, 2022
Is he eyeing the vice presidential slot ?
If PDP agrees to pick Peter Obi as the consensus presidential candidate and Aminu Tambuwal as the running mate, it would mean that head or tail in 90 percent of the time, presidential leadership from the north would always be Fulani. No other tribe matters.
But the fact remains that there’s no such thing as one North, one people. That’s the greatest farce ever, even before colonial times.
If the north were to be one people, the human abattoir that the region has infamously turned itself into, with the morbid propensity of murdering each other, kidnapping, banditry and the bombing of Infrastructure would not have been this sordid.
During the political junketing of the quartet trying to change the southern governors resolution that insisted on the People’s Democratic Party, PDP to field a southern candidate, Aminu Tambuwal reeled off some voter statistics to show that a southern presidential candidate may not win the election for the party.
That was another great farce.
If there were a rig free and fair election in the north today, amazing results would show that change is real, towards a just and egalitarian north.
For instance, with the raging insecurity in the region, how would the ordinary people who bear the brunt of displacements from their homelands vote ?
Tambuwal knows this, little wonder that while undergoing the project they were on to swing the ticket back to the north after the lacklustre tenure of the current regime, photos show his face, seemingly trying to hug the southern Governors’ opinion. His mouth would speak differently anyway. But his thoughts seem exposed, based on his acts.
From the quartet team of only Fulanis, what a likely southern candidate would see, would be the quartet who are in the frontline. So whichever way the coin flips, there’s a presidential or vice presidential candidate who is of the mentioned tribe on the ticket.
At some point, the agenda of catering for their parochial interest may be promoted as a national agenda, which may not engender peace in the region.
Christian minority northerners, Hausas and the numerous tribes in the north are watching the political game with keen interest and gritted teeth. Southerners can’t see this, because they do not know the different cleavages in the north.
Assuming that Peter Obi or Nyesom Wike picks the ticket to run with a Hausa man as the vice presidential candidate, the voting effect would be very interesting. Even the scenario of having a minority Muslim northerner would equally shake the votes on the road to winning ways.
People up there are simply fed up with the status quo.
Garba Audu writes from Abuja
