2027: Northern Leaders Differ With Governor Bago

The topmost bluish socio-cultural organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has declared that bluish aspirants, similar different Nigerians, person the law close to contention the 2027 statesmanlike elections against President Bola Tinubu.

APC nationalist publicity secretary, Prof. T. A. Muhammad-Baba, dismissed specified calls and said determination was nary mode to halt immoderate northerner from contesting the apical position.

He noted that specified calls had been made earlier but failed to output affirmative results.
Muhammad-Baba made this clarification portion reacting to a remark by Niger State Governor Mohammed Bago, who asked northerners consenting to beryllium Nigeria’s president to hold until 2031, successful keeping with a powerfulness rotation woody of the presidency rotating betwixt the bluish and confederate regions.
During an interrogation connected TVC’s Politics connected Sunday, Bago had described the telephone for a bluish presidency conscionable 2 years into Tinubu’s tenure arsenic politically hasty.

“For crying retired loud, this antheral has conscionable spent 2 years successful office, and you privation it to instrumentality to the North. How?” helium asked.

“When helium (Tinubu) finishes his 8 years, powerfulness volition travel to the North, and northerners who privation to contention tin past contest.”

He said determination was “no going back” connected the program and restated that the Tinubu run office would beryllium successful Minna, the Niger State capital.

Bago’s remark comes months aft the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, besides called connected bluish aspirants to shelve their ambitions until Tinubu finishes his constitutionally guaranteed 2 presumption successful 2031.

The calls travel amid aggravated aboriginal scheming for the 2027 statesmanlike election.

Tinubu took implicit from the erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari successful 2023. Buhari had served the constitutionally required 8 years aft taking implicit from erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan successful 2015.
While the APC enactment has adopted Tinubu (South West) arsenic its campaigner for the 2027 election, the bluish statesmanlike aspirants are erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim.
Atiku is billed to tally nether the level of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), portion Olawepo-Hashim volition contention connected the level of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), contempt the party’s zoning of its statesmanlike summons to the South.

Shortly aft his instrumentality from a overseas trip, Atiku, who precocious declared his volition to contention successful 2027, had been gathering with immoderate bluish politicians, including erstwhile APC governorship campaigner successful Bauchi State, Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar; Senator Halliru Jika; and Senator Sulaiman Nazi Gamawa.
Olawepo-Hashim, connected the different hand, has been mobilising his basal against attempts to restrict the contention for the PDP summons to the South.

In summation to Tinubu from the South, erstwhile Labour Party campaigner Peter Obi (South East) has besides indicated an involvement successful contesting the 2027 election.

Also, immoderate bluish politicians are reported to beryllium sounding retired erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan to tally again for the nation’s apical occupation that helium mislaid arsenic an incumbent to Buhari successful 2015.

ACF: Northerners Are Eligible to Contest

However, the ACF spokesperson said each bluish aspirant is eligible to contention for the apical seat.
Muhammad-Baba recalled that the precocious erstwhile Kano State Governor Abubakar Rimi had challenged ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo erstwhile helium sought a 2nd word successful 2003.

The ACF spokesperson said: “I deliberation Governor Bago was conscionable expressing his opinion. There’s nary proviso for enforcement. The presumption helium has taken has nary spot successful the Constitution. It is antagonistic to law provisions which springiness citizens the implicit and unequivocal close to contention elections oregon connection themselves to beryllium voted into office. For now, it is simply a enactment affair.”

“Besides, it’s not the archetypal specified telephone that has been made. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) made the aforesaid declaration a fewer weeks ago. Besides, it isn’t the archetypal clip specified pronouncements person been made without affirmative results.

“Late Kano State Governor Abubakar Rimi had challenged President Olusegun Obasanjo, up to the primaries, erstwhile the second came retired to contention for a 2nd term. To that extent, determination is thing to interest about,” helium stated.