June 24, (THEWILL) – Former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has alleged a northern political alliance ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
Citing the recent visit of some northern leaders to former President Muhammadu Buhari, Sani said the visit, which is beyond Sallah’s homage, is part of a move to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
THEWILL had reported the recent visit of former vice-president Atiku Abubakar and other northern politicians to former presidents Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Sani said the visit was part of plans to use Buhari as a rallying point to challenge President Tinubu.
The post reads: “The recent visits by some prominent Northern politicians to Daura appear 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 stock up and light up the Arewa sentiment without considering the inferno it would eventually generate.
“By the time he left power, poverty and insecurity were at their peak more 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 has been in power for just 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 to ruin the democratic process and wreck 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 programmes of his administration is a democratic right of any Nigerian. People have the right to speak and criticise 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 into a new political journey through a landmine.
“Buhari’s reign ensured nepotistic 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 refilling, 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.”
