Senator Shehu Sani has alleged that northern politicians are working hard to woo Muhammadu Buhari in a plot to remove President Bola Tinubu from office ahead of 2027 presidential election.
Indeed, the ex-senator noted that the northern politicians were interested in resurrecting Buhari’s political charm and fanaticism to mobilise the gullible people in the North for a selfish reason.
Newstrends recalls that many top northern politicians have recently visited Buhari in his Daura home, Katsina State.
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Aminu Tambuwal, ex-governor of Sokoto, visited Buhari on June 22
About 24 hours after, Nasir el-Rufai, an ex-governor of Kaduna, also visited the former president.
In a statement on Monday, Sani said that though the visits were tagged as “Sallah homage,” they had a political undertone.
“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,” the statement read.
He also stated, “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 and 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.”
Sani noted Buhari, a northerner who served as president for eight years, did not make a significant impact on the nation.
“They had power and wasted it. What do they want to do with it again?”
The former senator said, “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.
