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A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sule Lamido, says the alleged choice of a Northerner as the next Nigerian president was a wrong move by Ex-president Muhammadu Buhari.
Lamido, in an interview with Nigerian Tribune on Saturday, noted that Buhari’s alleged choice wasn’t in tandem with the political dynamics as of present.
Buhari, a native of Daura, Katsina State, ruled for eight years between 2015-2023, before handing over to incumbent President Bola Tinubu, a Westerner.
“You have done eight years for the North and you wanted another Northerner for another eight years? No! Maybe later but there are some dynamics which you can not alter, not in Nigeria of today.
“The president of Nigeria, after being in office for eight years, lacked the courage to push through his anointed choice. He was there at the convention, and Tinubu, whom he never liked, he never believed in, emerged. Tinubu knows that his victory wasn’t from Buhari, therefore, he owes him nothing.
“He was not the choice of Afenifere, Obasanjo never liked him, but he became the president. All the other groups, including the governors, were there but he won. He was determined to demolish all obstacles and he crushed them,” Lamido said.
The PDP chieftain noted that the crisis rocking the main opposition party isn’t peculiar to the PDP alone, saying, “It is a Nigerian thing. Whatever is happening in the PDP is happening everywhere else, in government institutions, even in newspaper organisations, wherever you see Nigerians.
“So, the PDP is a Nigerian phenomenon and run by the Nigerian people, not by angels from heaven and, therefore, it is the same spirit whether in the APC or the PDP. Even if you go to the APC, the people you find there are all PDP.”
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