President Goodluck Jonathan has
allegedly commissioned a group of political experts
to begin to counteract ex-President Olusegun
Obasanjo's possible secret plans to work for the
emergence of a Northerner as the President in
2015.
According to the source of SaharaReporters
Jonathan's team is charged with strategising on the
best manoeuvres to contain Mr. Obasanjo's moves.
President Jonathan has no clear understanding of
where Mr. Obasanjo stands in the crisis tearing
apart the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the
President has decided not to take chances by
ignoring Obasanjo.
The Northern members of the team set up by the
President have been mandated to lead the first
stage of Mr. Jonathan's campaigns and
consultations across the entire Northern states.
"Some of the President's pundits have swung into
action in the 'core' Northern states of Sokoto, Kano,
Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, Katsina and northern
Kaduna," the source disclosed.
He added that Jerry Gana, Jonathan Silas Zwingina,
Abdulkadir Kure, and Isaiah Balat were among
those assigned to run the early stages of the
President's campaign in the Middle Belt.
"Another group led by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and
Barrister Ahmed Gulak is working on the same
mission in the North-East axis," he said.
The source revealed that a key strategy of the
President's group was to seek the support of top
Islamic and Christian clerics in the North. The well-
funded presidential group is offering millions of
naira to selected clerics in return for their political
sympathy for Mr. Jonathan's reelection campaign.
"Mr. President is aware of Chief Obasanjo's
previous antecedents. Look at [Mr. Obasanjo's]
close relationship with the arrowheads of the
rebellion in the PDP. He is the one who made Sule
Lamido, Aliyu Babangida of Niger and Wammako of
Sokoto. It's the same thing with Nyako in Adamawa
State.
"We gathered that Obasanjo is having serious
problems with the IBB [Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida] and Abdulsalami circle that made it
possible for him to be president in 1999. And we
know that Chief Obasanjo wants to settle the
Umaru Yar'Adua saga that led to the emergence of
Jonathan. He thinks it is best to help install a
Northern President in 2015. And he is also not
happy with Jonathan's style and some power
blocks influencing the president," the source added.
allegedly commissioned a group of political experts
to begin to counteract ex-President Olusegun
Obasanjo's possible secret plans to work for the
emergence of a Northerner as the President in
2015.
According to the source of SaharaReporters
Jonathan's team is charged with strategising on the
best manoeuvres to contain Mr. Obasanjo's moves.
President Jonathan has no clear understanding of
where Mr. Obasanjo stands in the crisis tearing
apart the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the
President has decided not to take chances by
ignoring Obasanjo.
The Northern members of the team set up by the
President have been mandated to lead the first
stage of Mr. Jonathan's campaigns and
consultations across the entire Northern states.
"Some of the President's pundits have swung into
action in the 'core' Northern states of Sokoto, Kano,
Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, Katsina and northern
Kaduna," the source disclosed.
He added that Jerry Gana, Jonathan Silas Zwingina,
Abdulkadir Kure, and Isaiah Balat were among
those assigned to run the early stages of the
President's campaign in the Middle Belt.
"Another group led by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and
Barrister Ahmed Gulak is working on the same
mission in the North-East axis," he said.
The source revealed that a key strategy of the
President's group was to seek the support of top
Islamic and Christian clerics in the North. The well-
funded presidential group is offering millions of
naira to selected clerics in return for their political
sympathy for Mr. Jonathan's reelection campaign.
"Mr. President is aware of Chief Obasanjo's
previous antecedents. Look at [Mr. Obasanjo's]
close relationship with the arrowheads of the
rebellion in the PDP. He is the one who made Sule
Lamido, Aliyu Babangida of Niger and Wammako of
Sokoto. It's the same thing with Nyako in Adamawa
State.
"We gathered that Obasanjo is having serious
problems with the IBB [Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida] and Abdulsalami circle that made it
possible for him to be president in 1999. And we
know that Chief Obasanjo wants to settle the
Umaru Yar'Adua saga that led to the emergence of
Jonathan. He thinks it is best to help install a
Northern President in 2015. And he is also not
happy with Jonathan's style and some power
blocks influencing the president," the source added.
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