AS the emergence, on the streets of Abuja, of President Goodluck Jonathan’s posters for the 2015 election continues to generate comments and controversies, a political group, Concerned Arewa Patriots (CAP), believing thatthe President may have clandestinely flagged off his campaign, has vowed to mobilise Northerners to beathim in the elections.
The group has, therefore, called on northerners to unite and support the move “to chase him out of the Villathrough election.”
This is just as the Conference of Political Parties (CNPP) has urged thePeoples Democratic Party (PDP) to give Nigerians a break, saying it has become obvious that the President isrunning for a second term.
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, the CNPP said: “All we demand isthat there should be free, fair and transparent elections in 2015; most importantly, that the President should not either covertly or overtly use his high office to manipulate the electoral process.”
The convener and pioneer national leader of the group,Mallam Maiyaki Idris, said in Kaduna yesterday that to “be able to appreciate the path to lead to our goals of unity and sustainable development, we have set out machinery on course to fish out the very best of ourown, to seek for and pursuethe prime position of Presidency come 2015, to broker the peace and security of the nation, which has been in crisis for some time now.
“We make this humble appeal as an initiative for allagencies of the North to begin to consider, in order to generate our total cooperation and support for our consensus candidate come 2015,” he said.
Idris argued that although Jonathan could contest for the Presidency, the incumbency factor should notdiscourage the North from fielding a consensus candidate for the position, alleging that the North had suffered a lot under the current dispensation.
He said: “My own religion believes that power belongs to Almighty Allah and Allah gives it to whosoever He wishes and He can take it at any moment…”
Several northern leaders have lately been holding political meetings and speaking about plans to produce a presidential material to wrestle power from Jonathan, if he decides to vie for the 2015 Presidency.
Said Idris: “God will still give power to who He wants, but God helps those who help themselves…
“What we are saying here now is that we should help ourselves… that somebody is an incumbent does not mean that automatically he has won the Presidency and that is what we are talking about.
“There must be election and rigging cannot succeed without our cooperation. We are the ones they give money to go and then they rig and get away.
“But if we say this time around we are not taking it, it has to be an election and ifthat level of awareness is created in the North, believeme we will win that election with the backing of Almighty Allah, because God created all of us and He has blessed us and not one particular individual…
“So, the issue of conceding to somebody is a weakness and it demoralises people.”
He added: “2015 is precious to us and we are seeing what is actually against us… It is a bitter lesson for us to accept what we are doing now.
“North ought to hold politicalpower, but the North now is nothing in Nigeria. The economic power is the West, whether you like it or not. Take the statistics of the banks in this country, the financial houses, the corporate organizations; tell me who manages and who owns them.
“The commercial activities in this country are in the East. In my own local village, we have energetic boys, but even if it is anything, it is from the Igboman that I get it.
“We Northerners have cometo a stage where we should sit down and reason and work as one, irrespective ofreligion or tribe.”
CNPP said it was only concerned with the protection of the inalienable right of Nigerians to elect leaders of their choice in 2015.
According to the statement: “We are least concerned about who becomes the presidential candidate of PDPand therefore the intra-party power tussle should not pollute our political landscape.
“For those who engage in a do-or-die battle to capture the PDP presidential ticket and rate it as election beforethe election, we advise they come out of such mundane thought, as the granite merger of the ACN, CPC, ANPP and other progressiveforces will wipe out such hang-over.”
CNPP also demands the implementation of the core recommendations of the Uwais Electoral Reform Committee Report, alleging the Prof. Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was requesting for dictatorial powers to disqualify candidates, to muscle the opposition and cancel elections arbitrarily.

(Author of this article: From Saxone Akhaine, Kaduna)

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Okay . . . . .

Chase?

Arewa abi...i don hear ¤going back to bed¤

Now we can see that nija problems germinates and grows from an hausa man's belly

*chase away* is wrong choice of words.

Northerners should not be seen to be overtly ganging up against GEJ and desperate to gain power or else it would backfire.

So oga jona don to rat wey northerners dey chase up and down.

A region that ruled for 40+ years and left the country in a precarious,dilapidated and shambolic state is still gunning for power using all evil and unwaranted means and eye-killing words. Chase is a bad choice of word. When will this region realize that power isnt the only way to contribute to a nations development?

Power must come back to the North. Pls does it include Northern Christians or Minority Muslim. If Hausa-fulani likes, let them form alliances with every jobless parties, 2015 power will continue to go round until the South-South, Igbos and Non-Hausa-Fulani Northerners rules Nigeria.

. . . .like true owners of power plotting come back, reclaim what's rightly their's?

Watcha say?

The north in their real element with misplaces priorities and false and inept Religion , why not galvanize and chase out Boko Haram before tackling Jonathan

if arewa likes, let it chase jonathan, power is going to the middle belt this time. i would prefer tiv, igalla or idomma person.

@demmie1 Guy u dey stingy ooo. First South-South must complete their 8years after which it should go back to the Muslim North before it returns to the Igbos who then will pass the power to you Christian Northerners. 4 d sake of justice/fairness after GEJ power must go back 2 d North

R2bees: k

u don dey mad abi? Is dat all u've 2 say afta quotin d entire page.

Keepin a close eye....

ABOKI shine my shoe

Apocalypse begins.

SUBMARINE: @demmie1 Guy u dey stingy ooo. First South-South must complete their 8years after which it should go back to the Muslim North before it returns to the Igbos who then will pass the power to you Christian Northerners. 4 d sake of justice/fairness after GEJ power must go back 2 d North

even if they don't ve a competent candidate?

Arrrant......

....And the SS and SE would be more than ready to secede come 2015.1968 was a joke 2015 would see the SS and SE uniting forever after all we're all one people divide by war and survival instinct.

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kettykin: The north in their real element with misplaces priorities and false and inept Religion , why not galvanize and chase out Boko Haram before tackling Jonathan

gbam! Well said

mukina22: u don dey mad abi? Is dat all u've 2 say afta quotin d entire page.

what will you have him say? , even me say ok to it.

we don hear

R2bees: k

You're a pain in the a*ss

The way presidentship throne dey sweet nigerian politicians... Shebi we dey watch american or uk own as e dey go smoothly, some tribe don think say na their birth right, and if u allow another person enter, he go worst than the former person

We get there

the south will 'chase' Jonathan out of power on their own. but if the north dares intefers and think it is their birthright, we will make sure that Jonathan dey kampe as president come 2015

demmie1: if arewa likes, let it chase jonathan, power is going to the middle belt this time. i would prefer tiv, igalla or idomma person.

Oga keep dreaming!!!..[/size] [size=14pt] . . . . . Joke of the century[/size]