Shehu Sani, however, urged northerners to reject the move, noting that the politicians have nothing to offer
By Kehinde Okeowo
Human rights activist and former senator, Shehu Sani has claimed that the recent visits by some northern politicians to former President Muhammadu Buhari are moves to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general election.
He made this known via a post on his verified Facebook handle on Monday, where he noted the plan would eventually fail
TheNiche had earlier reported that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 presidential candidate and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as well as the former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, among others, visited the former president in his hometown, Daura in Kastina State recently.
Reacting to the trend, Sani urged northerners to reject their faces and their plot to unseat the president come 2027, noting that they have nothing to offer.
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Speaking on his social media page, Shehu Sani said, “The recent visits by some prominent Northern politicians to Daura appears 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 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.”
He went on to remind his fellow northerners that one of them who served as president for eight years did not make a significant impact.
“They had power and wasted it. What do they want to do with it again?” the former senator queried.
Sani added: “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.
“No serious southerner challenged Buhari for eight years. These power-drunk Northern politicians are dragging the region to a new political journey through a land mine.
“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 refiling and Mambilla hydropower, they failed.”
Buhari handed over power to Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who garnered 8,794,726 votes to defeat Abubakar who secured 6,984,520 votes, on May 29, 2023.
