by Okoi Obono-Obla
Most times we hear people clamouring that power should go back to the north and I ask: how will that happen, and through who. The greatest problem of Muhammadu Buhari is that he is a northerner, but an average northern person does not like Buhari.
Aside what people say that IBB and OBJ will not be alive to see Buhari a President, Buhari’s problem is much more than that. Sometimes I laugh when I hear that power should go back to the NORTH and I ask how; through people like – Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku Abubakar, Nasir El-Rufai etc., these people do not have the credibility that is required and the northerners don’t even like them.
I have watched Buhari since; 2003 he failed, 2007 he failed, 2011, he failed, so what will be the difference in 2015? Doing the same thing, the same way over and over and you expect a different result, how?
I am sure that Jonathan and Peoples Democratic Party [PDP]will be smiling to the bank on hearing that Buhari won as he quickly know that it is going to be a walk over.
Do you know that All Progressives Congress [APC] can even make more impact and challenge President Jonathan if they field somebody like Owelle Rochas Okorocha as he can get vote in the East, he can get in the South and even in the North, but can Buhari boast of that?
When they go to the polls now, in Imo State or Akwa-Ibom State, Jonathan will score 4 million votes and Buhari will score 29,000 and when we go to Sokoto, Kano or Kebbi, or even Katsina, Buhari will score 1.7 million votes and Jonathan will score 1.5 million votes, so how will Buhari win.
Also the APC strong holds of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe are on fire, how many people will come out to vote and when they do, it will be shared, so how would Buhari do the magic.
I wish the general the best of luck but I would have wished him to go and rest for his well lived life as his people, the northerners, do not like him period, just few pockets, pockets of people making a case for him.
Written by Ikenna Okonkwo
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