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| 2015 Battle: Core North closes rank.Northern pro-Jonathan governors get threat messages from extremists northern leaders |
This is for the gullible Southerners who do not know that 2015 is a war between Arewa North and the rest of the people in the geographic space known as Nigeria. Vanguard reports that the emergence of Islamic fundamentalist, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has changed the political calculations in the core northern part of Nigeria. Northern governors and politicians perceived to be in supporting President Goodluck Jonathan are receiving threat messages from various radical elements in the north.
Sunday Vanguard learnt, last night, from very competent sources, that many of the northern political opinion leaders and groups had decided that all necessary support must be given to Buhari to win the February 14, 2015 presidential election so as to return power to them. The Chairman of the northern sociopolitical group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, lent credence to the move when he insisted that power, next year, must shift to the North. Coomassie spoke during an interview with Sunday Vanguard.
One of the sources, an influential northern leader and close confidante of President Goodluck Jonathan, revealed that since Buhari’s emergence, the ‘entire North’ had adopted Buhari as its political candidate and was not afraid to stand by him to win the 2015 election.
The PDP big wig pointed out that it was shocking to see how the support base of the APC presidential candidate had evolved beyond political lines, with some radical elements threatening to deal ruthlessly with anyone who betrays Buhari in the North.
“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”, a northern governor supportive of Jonathan’s presidential bid told Sunday Vanguard, yesterday.
“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”.
It was learnt that some radical northern leaders have also been sending threat messages to some of their governors and leaders believed to be working for Jonathan’s victory in the 2015 poll to stop the support or be dealt with.
The governor, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard, showed two of such threat messages written in Hausa and English to him,warning him not to betray the North for the President as he did in the last presidential election.
One of the mails came from a ranking federal northern lawmaker while the other was from a man the governor described as his friend.
It was learnt that the current political mood in the North had since been relayed by the security agencies and some friendly PDP governors to Jonathan, who apparently expressed surprise over the turn of events but promised to do something urgent to swing support in his favour.
The President was said to have assured northern governors that he would fulfill the promises he made to them during his 2011 campaign, but it could not be established whether that would be before or after the next election.
The Arewa North wants power to return to the north so they will reestablish their decadal stranglehold on the rest of the country, while siphoning resources from Biafran oil wells.
This recent turn of event is a prelude to war. The north has drawn the battle line and about to draw the first blood.
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