Former governor of Niger State, Engr. Abdulkadir Kure, has asserted that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is not in a position to choose a presidential candidate for the North.

Kure made this assertion in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP while responding to the newspaper’s exclusive story of yesterday in which Obasanjo endorsed Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido for the 2015 presidential poll.

LEADERSHIP had reported that Obasanjo had endorsed the candidature of Lamido and Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi as the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015.

Obasanjo also claimed that he supported power shift to the North in 2015.

But Kure faulted the political arrangement on the grounds that the North was capable of deciding on who would represent it during the 2015 presidential election, and said that the North would speak with one voice and choose a credible leader to represent the region.

The ex-governor accused Obasanjo of messing up Nigeria and particularly the North when he held sway as president, and added that he should leave the North alone and concentrate on his poultry farm in Ota, Ogun State.

In his words: “In 2015, the North will decide for itself and choose a candidate that the whole united North, acting as one, will support. Obasanjo has messed up the entire country and particularly the North. We shall not allow him do that again. Let him go and face his poultry farm and leave us alone.”

“Obasanjo lacks the locus standi to decide who will represent us in 2015. We will not allow him to do that again. Let him face his poultry farm in Ota and leave the North alone.”

Billyonaire: OBJ is politically in limbo.

floriana: Yes. Obasanjo should allow the new leaders of the North like Imam Abubakar Shekau and Kabiru Sokoto to make the choice.

floriana: Yes. Obasanjo should allow the new leaders of the North like Imam Abubakar Shekau and Kabiru Sokoto to make the choice.

Idokojimmy:

http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/32989/2012/08/21/2015_presidency_obasanjo_cannot_choose_north_kure.html
 

Lex1: Leadership Paper never interviewed Obasanjo on this issue, they drew their story from a close source to Obasanjo and with that i count it as a rumour. So kure reacting to it is a time weasting, but if power is to go to north come 2015 i think Lamido is the rite candidate for the north. And this left me asking, is it because of BH dat they want to shift power to the north? I tink 2015 should be a fight btw Gej n sum1 4rm d SE perhaps Rochas. Hausa have tried enof in Nigeria, they should relax 4 a while. because by 2020 or 2024 Fashola wud be ready after his senetorial appointment. You know na, as a yoruba man we must be in power by dat tym for proper governing of Nigeria. Thank u.

Ibrahim mr fish: Idiots.What have souther presidence give 2 9ja.

Crown Prince: Giving the north power is another drawback of nation building. It will be another 8 years of ineptitude in leadership from the northern power drunk oligarchy.
Seriously, these OBJ character is senile. What do he take the IBOS for anyway? After given the south south the vice president, later president and now planning to return the vice to them without considering the IBOS in this political firmament is tantamount to democratic blue murder.
I think something is wrong with this Nigeria union.

Azidogen2:
no wonder, you are indeed a fish- so are all the northerners.