SIR: Some northern leaders have just banned their politicians not to support President Goodluck Jonathan’s alleged ambition to re-occupy Aso Rock. They mistakenly called it second term ambition. I believe that whoever has spent eight years in Aso Rock as President, Vice-President, or Secretary to the Federal Government has exhausted his or her chance in that place, unless there is no other competent person in the land.
The north should seriously re-examine its conscience. The so-called leaders have had enormous opportunities to rule the country, and for the most part, they had misruled, and there is no clear sign that they have repented. Look at what happened in 2011; they tried to field controversial persons while turning their backs against one of Nigeria’s most honest men, General Muhammadu Buhari.
Buhari has never been associated with materialism or self-aggrandisement, only service to humanity. He has demonstrated it all his public life. The same cannot be said of those other ones who were parading themselves as leaders. Obasanjo is a chief ally of the northern imperialists. Rather than urge the north to support Buhari, he is beating the drum for another confusionist. If the north divides itself between Buhari and another northerner in 2015, they may be sorry forever. I don’t know any northerner who is more popular than Buhari in the perception of downtrodden northerners.
•Pius Abioje,
University of Ilorin.
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