By Soni Daniel

Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, on Friday confirmed that Northern elders actually adopted a resolution to reject President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in the 2019 because of his failure to meet the basic demand of the region.

Mohammed, who has just stepped down as the running mate of the SDP Presidential candidate, Donald Duke, who was also sacked by the court on Friday, said however that the north did not choose Atiku as the candidate it would support in place of Buhari.

Mohammed, who was a member of the 2014 Constitution Conference, told Saturday Vanguard in an exclusive interview that the Convener of the Northern Elders’ Forum, Prof Ango Abdullahi, spoke the minds of the northern people when he declared that they had rejected Buhari ahead of next year’s election.

According to Mohammed, the decision by the north to reject Buhari as its candidate for the 2019 presidential election was taken by no fewer than 18 key northern stakeholders groups, adding that the former Ahmadu Bello University Vice Chancellor merely echoed the verdict reached by the northerners after many meetings based on Buhari’s abysmal performance in office.

Mohammed, who was an aide to former President Shehu Shagari, said however that Ango Abdullahi went out of the brief of the north to say that the north had chosen the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, as its choice for the 2019 presidency.

He said: “It is clear that APC and Buhari are shocked by the decision of NEF not to support him next year and they have started paying people to attack Ango Abdullahi as if he acted alone in the decision to dump Buhari ahead of the 2019 elections.

“The only missing link in what Ango Abdullahi did was to come out openly to say that the north would support Buhari. It is not so and we never discussed the idea of supporting Atiku because he is not an alternative to Buhari in any form.

“The truth of the matter is that there is no way we can come out openly to support Atiku over Buhari because Atiku has some credibility issues just as Buhari is incompetent to lead Nigeria. As it has become evident, that incompetence has held down the development of Nigeria in the last four years and there is nothing Buhari can do because he has also been captured by a cabal.

“As far as I am concerned those who want to endorse Atiku over Buhari have a lot of explanation to do to the Nigerian people especially regarding issues of selling the core assets of Nigeria to incompetent cronies of the Obasanjo era of which Atiku played a major role and today most of such commercial enterprises have been overtaken by weeds across the country.

Atiku also needs to explain to Nigerians how he is better than Buhari in terms of using a cabal to run the system and being unable to break away from nepotism in the running of the government,” Mohammed said.

It would be recalled that Ango Abdullahi, a professor of Agronomy and Convener of the Northern Elders Forum, had last week disclosed that the North had rejected Buhari ahead of the 2019 election for failing to address the pummelling poverty and underdevelopment in the north since coming to power in 2015.

Mohammed also said he quit his post as the running mate to the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, when he discovered that the party was not more than a regional sectional entity, and would not advance his quest for a national party capable of addressing the challenges of Nigeria.

Mohammed also said that although he had jettisoned his post as the running mate to the presidential candidate and North West Vice Chairman of the party, he would remain as a loyal party member and contribute his quota to the advancement of the party.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/2019-atikus-not-alternative-to-buharis-incompetence-junaid-mohammed/

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“It is clear that APC and Buhari are shocked by the decision of NEF not to support him next year and they have started paying people to attack Ango Abdullahi as if he acted alone in the decision to dump Buhari ahead of the 2019 elections.

“..Buhari is incompetent to lead Nigeria. As it has become evident, that incompetence has held down the development of Nigeria in the last four years and there is nothing Buhari can do because he has also been captured by a cabal...."

At least Atiku is under probation but Buhari is completely out of the equation.Steaming red, red hot. BMC are you guys still there?

Gbam!Well said.

You should be a better Alternative then abi Na alternator sef. Idiot.

The truth was that in 2015, people wanted anyone but Jonathan and that's how unfortunately we had Buhari. There is this saying that no matter how many times a snake changes its skin, it doesn't make it less a snake. That is exactly who Buhari is, despite the repackaging from the likes of tinubu and the rest in 2015, time has proves that Buhari remains the same in being a tribalistic, nepotistic, fanatic individual who remains economically unsound, no wonder during his stint as head of state in the 1980's we had recession, and the same thing repeated in 2006.

The truth is Buhari has blind followership in the north, same nepotistic, tribalist, and economically unsound individuals litters the north, they view him as demi god, no wonder he plays to the gallery, by giving them more appointments and turning blind eye to their misdemeanors. The same people who voted out Jonathan under the guise of failing Nigeria would not vote out Buhari even though Buhari has done worse.


Personally I don't like the Atiku candidacy because of some credibility issues he has, but the truth is that looking at the other candidates for the presidential race, Atiku looks the likeliest with the clout and grit to wrestle power with Buhari, don't tell me the boolsheet of saying "What if we all support Kashim, what if we all support Moghalu, what if we all support Sowore" the truth is that there is no way those ones are smelling that seat, they are not going to win, with the orientation and voting pattern done by hungry Nigerians, there is no way they are going to win, they wouldn't indulge or have the capacity to do a nationwide vote buying, bribing of voters by doling out money or consumables on that day to voters, enough wherewithal to fund the campaigns and elections.

Nigeria is at the lowest low it can go, there is no any lower we can go lower than we are presently. Atiku is a sound business man, and can apply that business temerity in revamping Nigeria. The so-called corruption fight is a hogwash, have you been close to goverment circles, the same high level of looting is still going on unabated, so why would we under the guise of the so-called corruption fighting be kill yourself with hunger.

Any Nigerian that wants Buhari out should settle for the Atiku option, Obasanjo had no option, having weighed everything, weighed the realities on ground had no option than to go back to his vomit in endorsing Atiku, it wasn't easy for him, so if he could do that, I think majority of Nigerians should toe that line, the rest of the candidates even though are young, intelligent, economically sound( like one chika Ukaegbu, the acclaimed youngest presidential candidate) are just vote splitters, Buhari is happy them being in the race, cos his core fanatical, nepotistic almajiris are on lockdown, but down south and the sound northerners would now be split with voting for Atiku and the rest of the mushroom presidential candidates.

Let's every right thinking Nigerian please think about the Atiku option, he is the only realistic solution to the quagmire we brought ourselves into, don't be decieved by the noise of the other Presidential candidates who lack party structures across the 36 states of the federation, they are nothing than vote spliters

You can say that again loudly sir.

Buhari may not be the best, but Atiku is not an option.

Apple is different from Guava even though they both have seeds

Chris okotie is even a better option than ATIKU

I don't think anybody can do a worse job than buhari

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If Nigeria were to be China, over 95% of their members would have been executed for looting the treasury...
A fact that is so verifiable, but OBITUARY still says there are 2 millions vehicles in Nigeria and Mexico is part of BRICS, well, he knows most of his supporters are ignorant and dull! You see them everywhere around shouting about a cloned 75 years old.
Dull people!

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Junaid with his groundshifting opinions.The best way to play smart by Nigerian electorate is to go for people like Sowore,Ezekwesili,Kingsely.But some people have stuck to incompetence for obvious reasons.

From the debate of yesterday it showed those minority parties are still in oblivion and I’m sorry to say they might be experienced politicians but having the brain to make things working for real is my own concern. Even osibanjo was deflecting in some areas despite being in government for so long. Obi as well wasn’t that articulate throughout the debate on realities, he was just speaking more of a supporters words than what they have in plan so as it stands it’s just we picking after we hear the presidential debate to know if the leaders are sound upstairs and if Nigeria for once will vote for sound mind shunning religion and ethnicity that has blinded us over the years

Sai Baba 2019 if we no vote Buhari na who we go vote

It can only get worse with another continuation of the catastrophe Nigeria is experiencing today.Next level of incompetency.

In otherwords,he is saying Buhari's incompetence is less an issue than Atiku's credibility issue,even if he is competent.
See d way some folks up north reason.
This is a man that has been making noise everyday about Buhari's incompetence,being captured by a cabal,lack of intellectual knowhow and even integrity deficit,yet when its time to take a stand, he still decides to stick to such a person.
The problem is them,educated,illiterate,they still live and thrive on ethnic,religious and sentimental reasoning.

Eziokwu?

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So long as it not Buhari anybody can rule Nigeria.

Goldfaze1:
So long as it not Buhari anybody can rule Nigeria.

Go put your landlord there nah!

simple equation; share the votes competitevely in the core north,win the north central,South East and South South already in Atiku kitty,then slog it out in the southwest�

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Atiku has every shade to support SME's with what they have on ground, voting Atiku is a Vote for better economy , bros if u no vote Atiku wetin u gain?

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post=73857255:
If Nigeria were to be China, over 95% of their members would have been executed for looting the treasury...
A fact that is so verifiable, but OBITUARY still says there are 2 millions vehicles in Nigeria and Mexico is part of BRICS, well, he knows most of his supporters are ignorant and dull! You see them everywhere around shouting about a cloned 75 years old.
Dull people!

Buhari supporters are more dull if you ask me. Allow Buhari to address the nation without a prepared speech and watch him entertain you with incoherent bla bla...

Buhari's incompetence reeks to the high heavens. His supporters are very dull.

Let's help NEF and junaid Mohammed to settle this.

Like for Atiku, and Share for Buhari.

The winner will be the northern candidate for 2019

PointZerom:


Buhari supporters are more dull if you ask me. Allow Buhari to address the nation without a prepared speech and watch him entertain you with incoherent bla bla...

Even Trump won't address USA without a prepared speech

I have nothing to say

Calm down my friend, outside the BMC's who have been paid to make noise here, the bulk of those who would vote for Buhari are not on social media, they no know wetin be nairaland, you are just hunting for likes, anyway I gave you one

Skirmishes:
Let's help NEF and junaid Mohammed to settle this.

Like for Atiku, and Share for Buhari.

The winner will be the northern candidate for 2019