2019: OBJ Accused of Plotting Against Buhari… Find Out His Anointed Candidates

President Muhammadu Buhari (l), Nigeria's current President and (r) Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, Nigeria’s ex-President has been accused of attempting to cause a disunity among the northerners as strategies for the 2019 general elections hot up.

A close confidant and political associate of Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s ex-Vice President and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC),  Alhaji Abdullahi Sugar, has revealed how the ex-President has begun scheming to change the northern political game-plan respecting the choice of a northern presidential candidate for 2019.

He disclosed that Chief Obasanjo has concluded plans to ensure that President Buhari does not get re-elected in 2019, and has thus penciled down either Malam Nasir El-Rufai, the current governor of Kaduna State or Rabiu Kwakwanso, former two-time governor of Kano State, who’s currently at daggers-drawn with his successor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, as they battle to control the party machinery in the state. Incidentally, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, and Rabiu Kwakwanso, are both chieftains of the ruling APC.

Alhaji Sugar wondered why the former President would take it as his right to dabble into the affairs of the north as to want to dictate to the region who would be their choice when the right to so do belongs to the people.

"Obasabjo should allow the will of the people to prevail. Why would he pick El-Rufai or Kwakwanso, when there were other more qualified politicians as a replacement for Buhari in 2019?" He queried. “Despite the wishes of Obasanjo that his former VP would never become President, he must know that it’s God that gives power to whom he wishes. I declare my support for Atiku,” he added.

He therefore warned his fellow northerners to be weary of the antics of the former President and be vigilant against his moves to replace President Muhammadu Buhari with one of his boys.

Reports have it that Alhaji Sugar is worried over the clandestine moves by Obasanjo as he plans vigorously to foist Governor Nasir El-Rufai or Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso on north. He thus urged the northerners not allow Obasanjo to pull the wool over their faces once again as he had done in the past.

“The north must be weary of the antics of the former President. It has happened before and we should not allow it to happen again. Obasanjo should allow the people’s will to prevail. Why is he plotting for Kwankwaso and El-Rufai when better politicians abound in the north? The people’s will and not his, should be allowed to prevail. Tell him that Nigerians are now more enlightened politically than in 2007,” he said.

He insisted that for him, Atiku Abubakar remained his choice. “Obasanjo had on many occasions said Atiku will not in his lifetime be Nigeria's President. We are praying for him (Obasanjo) to live long so that he can witness the emergence of Atiku as President. Atiku is not looking for the Presidency from Obasanjo, but from Allah, who gives power to anybody he wishes without the endorsement of people like Obasanjo,” he concluded.