The northern political establishment working for the consolidation of the Presidency of General Muhammadu Buhari is set for a major alliance with the South East political class in a shift aimed at tackling the collapse of the North/South West alliance that brought him to power.

As a direct response to this development, a rally in support of the APC National Leader, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, holds in Lagos today, even as one of the organisers described the event as a “show of force” to send a message to the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership about where the South West caucus of the party stands.

Leaders of the PDP in the legislature and some key members of the party’s National Caretaker Committee were spotted at the meeting held in Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.

It was learnt that a former presiding officer in the National Assembly is fast-tracking the relationship that would ensure that the South East replaces the South West in the political arrangement ahead of the 2019 elections.

The recent appointment of former Senate President Ken Nnamani, as the chairman of the Constitution and Electoral Reform Committee by the president is also believed to be in furtherance of the new friendship between political leaders in the zone and certain northern leaders.

Also, during the week, President Buhari met senators from the South East, led by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekeweremadu, for several hours in the Villa where the senators reportedly told him the grievances in their zone against the North and his presidency.

“The plot is very simple and direct”, said a source who confirmed that the push is to ensure a conciliatory relationship between the Buhari camp and the South East, once the leaders of the South East are able to eke out some promises from the president, which would become the selling points for him in the zone ahead of the next election.

“But a major aspect of the deal is the push that could see the South East producing a key member of the next government, using a former lawmaker who is seen as having played a major democratic role in the past”, the source said.

Alliance against South West will fail

Speaking with Saturday Tribune on Friday, Comrade Amitolu Shittu, National Coordinator, Committee for Democracy and Rights of the People, said whatever alliance or alignment between the North and the South East against the South West would collapse because, as he put it, most of the political players in the North did not believe in righteousness.

He also said any attempt to rubbish the South West in the alignment would collapse like a pack of cards, noting that “whoever seeks to underestimate the Yoruba race would be doing so at his or her detriment. If they think they can underestimate the Yoruba race, they are joking.

“Yoruba elevated former President Goodluck Jonathan to become the president but when he started behaving funny, where did he end up? He saw the consequences. Those who ventured into attempting to rubbish the Yoruba lost out completely. If anybody now thinks in the same direction, they will also disgrace themselves at the end of the day. No region can entirely be on its own without the Yoruba. No region can dare it”.

“Those who made election easy for Buhari in the South West in 2015 have been short-changed and the virus is spreading fast. The problem of the North is that they don’t consider national interest. Having lost power several years ago, they now see in the Buhari administration an opportunity to come into reckoning. No matter the marriage you have with them, such cannot last because they don’t believe in righteousness

Biafman:
Hahahahahahha, afonjas will all die because of this news.

isiOTUbuUTOya:

Any equation that doesnt have the perpetual turncoat lion-scratch tribe as a variable is okay wirrus

OILSOUP:
SS/SE NO GET ANY AGREEMENT WITH NORTH, ALL WE KNOW IS THAT YORUBA CAN NEVER WIN ANY VOTE IN THE SS/SE, WE WILL JUST VOTE THE NORTH INSTEAD.


2015 WAS AN EYE OPENER AND WE LEARNT ALOT. NORTH WILL RULE US TILL KINGDOM COME.

OILSOUP:
SS/SE NO GET ANY AGREEMENT WITH NORTH, ALL WE KNOW IS THAT YORUBA CAN NEVER WIN ANY VOTE IN THE SS/SE, WE WILL JUST VOTE THE NORTH INSTEAD.


2015 WAS AN EYE OPENER AND WE LEARNT ALOT. NORTH WILL RULE US TILL KINGDOM COME.

Nukualofa:
Even if buhari makes my dad his VP i won't vote for him so he should go to hell

Biafman:

Gbammm!! Nothing to add. Anything to spite the afonjas will be welcomed.

isiOTUbuUTOya:

Any equation that doesnt have the perpetual turncoat lion-scratch tribe as a variable is okay wirrus

Biafman:
Hahahahahahha, afonjas will all die because of this news.

CSTR13:
Very very good.
Teach them what sophisticated politics means.
We are already seeing the alignment in the senate. 2019 is going to be very interesting.
Bloody afonjas.

CSTR13:
Speak for yourself bro.
The SE may align with the north if it furthers our interests.
The Afonjas have taught you guys that politics in Nigeria is one of shameless compromise with no moral compass.
Ekweremadu is already making the moves.

CSTR13:
Speak for yourself bro.
The SE may align with the north if it furthers our interests.
The Afonjas have taught you guys that politics in Nigeria is one of shameless compromise with no moral compass.
Ekweremadu is already making the moves.

BakireBulmaker:


The northerners want their slaves back.

Yorubas will never bow/be subservient to them like the yeasterners would.

OILSOUP:
SS/SE NO GET ANY AGREEMENT WITH NORTH, ALL WE KNOW IS THAT YORUBA CAN NEVER WIN ANY VOTE IN THE SS/SE, WE WILL JUST VOTE THE NORTH INSTEAD.


2015 WAS AN EYE OPENER AND WE LEARNT ALOT. NORTH WILL RULE US TILL KINGDOM COME.

patriotic9jaboy:
[size=18pt]SOUTH EAST SHOULD NEVER TRUST THE NORTH[/size]



This is to appeal to every southerners that our future is in our hands. A united south is what we need now to stand against northern oppression and divide and rule tactics. We must ensure we work together to restore power to the south by 2019. The north obviously has a grand plan of retaining power for so long and this is obvious in the way Tinubu is been put in check so as to limit his influence in the party decisions and made irrelevant in the scheme of things. We never expected such treatment from the north after all we did to support Buhari in the last election. Oyegun is obviously been used to fight a proxy war with Tinubu by the born to rule caliphate up north who will do anything to render his power bloc handicap so as to ensure their grip on power. We need the support our SS/SE brothers to make this happen. Lets us unite and forget all grievances. A united south can wrestle power away from the north with the support of Christian minorities in the middle belt and the north. GEJ was a bad president contrary to our thoughts in 2011 when we supported him massively with our votes. He failed woefully and corruption thrived to the highest heavens during his tenure. Contrary to the believe of our SS/SE brothers, yoruba's did not vote Jonathan out because of hatred or betrayal. He simply under-performed and did nothing for the SW region and even boasted that Igbo's are the backbone of his presidency forgetting that the SW supported him massively in 2011. Buhari appeared to be the messiah but so far, the hardship in the land is so unbearable and there is no end in sight to the present predicaments facing us as a nation. Buhari has no economic blueprint and his style of governance is archiac and filled with bad policies like banning forex for importation of consumer goods and releasing the same scarce forex for Islamic religious pilgrimage. It's a bad situation we are in and we need to co-operate to undo this mistake in 2019. Every one is facing hardship and bearing the brunt of inflation and recession irrespective of our tribes and regions. This is why we need the support of our SS/SE brothers in 2019 to vote buhari out. Let's form an alliance and forget past mis-deeds. We are better united in the south than been ruled by a primitive caliphate who believed they are born to rule without positive results....



God bless SW /SS and SE

Sealeddeal:
We in SE will not ally with Buhari.