By Ochereome Nnanna

A national newspaper over the past
weekend carried a bold headline: “North
Vows To Stop Jonathan”, with riders: “We
will ensure PDP loses” – Ango Abdullahi;
Arewa Chair Commassie: “We are keeping
Plan B to our chest”.
Professor Ango Abdullahi is the spokesman
of the reactionary Northern Elders Forum,
NEF, which is overpopulated with former
holders of prominent offices at the federal
level. They were the people that the late
leader of Northern Nigeria, Alhaji Ahmadu
Bello, slaved throughout his life to educate
and pump into prominent positions during
the years that the region exclusively
dominated the Nigerian political sphere.
Ango Abdullahi and his cohorts were given
free education and pampered like princes
while at school because they were just a
handful when compared with their teeming
colleagues from the former Eastern and
Western Regions.
When they graduated, their classmates at
Barewa and other colleges in the North who
were sent to the military had occupied
prominent positions in the Federal Military
Government. They enjoyed all the plum
postings between 1966 and 1999. At a point
they believed that Nigeria was a colony of
Arewa because apart from Olusegun
Obasanjo, their surrogate who succeeded
Gen Murtala Mohammed when he was
killed in a power struggle between Northern
factions in 1976 to 1979, the North reigned
for 39 years.
It was this class of Northern elite that
wrecked the country, its economy and
institutions set up by the colonial masters
and post-independence leaders. Like
parasitic cankerworms, they ate down
federal parastatals such as the Railways,
Shipping Line, Nigeria Airways, Ajaokuta
Steel, Alscon, NITEL, NIPOST, among others,
until they were either scrapped or sold off
for pennies under questionable
privatisation programmes.
Back home in the North, they appropriated
all the money and power they derived from
their dominance of the Federal Government
to themselves, friends and family members
and produced a tiny core of super-
billionaires, with their children attending
the best schools in the world.
On the other hand, the children of the
talakawa – the poor and downtrodden –
were rendered into fly-infested al majiri;
street urchins who live with exploitative
koranic mallams. They frequently deploy
them to kill non-Muslims and non-indigenes
in the North. The youth have now
channelled their anger into Boko Haram
insurgency to overthrow the ruling class of
the North for which Ango Abdullahi is a
noisy spokesman.
These system wreckers want to gate-crash
back into power by all means. These were
the people who threatened that if Jonathan
was allowed to enjoy his inalienable
constitutional rights to vie for presidency of
the country, they would make Nigeria
ungovernable for him.
Their argument is that after the death of
President Umaru Yar’Adua, his Deputy, Dr
Goodluck Jonathan should have forfeited
his constitutional rights to succeed his boss.
He should have given up his inalienable
rights to vie for the presidency because of
the rotational principle of the PDP.
They call it a fight for justice. Where was
equity when Ango Abdullahi and other
Arewa freeloaders exclusively called the
shots for 39 years, reducing the South to
mere spectators? Is it now that a president
from the South-South in the former Eastern
Region is presiding over Nigeria and
gradually restoring the broken institutions
of state that Abdullahi attaches a
sanctimonious meaning to “equity”?
The truth of the matter is that Ango
Abdullahi and the NEF are in no position to
carry out the threat they have issued. They
cannot stop Nigerians from voting for
Jonathan or the PDP if that is what
Nigerians want. Also, they have no power to
facilitate the victory of the All Progressives
Congress, APC. APC victory will happen in
spite of the NEF if that is the wish of the
Nigerian electorate.
The Northern Region that the British
colonial master created and made a
monster to rule Nigeria either through
ballot or bullet is no more. The three old
regions are dead.
The old Northern region was the last to die.
It was the inheritors of Ahmadu Bello’s
largesse like Ango Abdullahi who killed the
North through religious extremism and
oppression of Minorities and non-Muslims
who helped them and the Yorubas in the
war against Igbos during 1966 to 1970. At
the just-concluded National Conference,
the Middle Belt separated themselves
cleanly from Arewa Muslim North and sided
with the combined South to create a new
political possibility which potentially
renders Arewa to an underdog.
Even at that, Arewa North does not dance to
the political tune dictated by the faction
that Ango speaks for. Ango Abdullahi, Lawal
Kaita and Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, who
boasted that the North would release “Plan
B”, are agents of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s
faction of the APC. They used their
Northern posturing to vie against Jonathan
in 2011.
Northern presidential aspirants closed ranks
against Jonathan and Atiku emerged as
consensus candidate. Jonathan still
thrashed Atiku at the PDP primaries by
scoring 2,736 against Atiku’s 805. Jonathan
went ahead to beat Muhammadu Buhari at
the presidential election of 2011, scoring
59% to Buhari’s 32%. Using the ogre of
North to frighten political opponents no
longer works.
Nigerians still vote along ethnic and
religious lines to some extent, but that is
not the deciding factor. The deciding factor
is where the various political leaders belong.
The North is a major stakeholder in both
APC and PDP.
The North (both Arewa and Middle Belt) is a
major stakeholder in the Jonathan
presidency. The choice before these leaders
in 2015 is whether their interests are better
served with theincumbent, President
Jonathan, or whoever emerges as the APC
flag bearer. They will direct their loyalists at
the localities to vote accordingly. Ango
Abdullahi is just letting off empty, hot air.
As for Coomassie’s Plan B, it no longer
exists. North used to bring in the army
whenever their civilian wing in power was
no longer sure-footed. They used to change
even military regimes whenever the one on
ground was no longer acceptable to them.
Those days are over. If Boko Haram was
Plan B, it is failing. It will not affect the
eventual outcome of the 2015 elections.
www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/norths-plan-b/

Their plan. B is to plan for 2019, I don't really see much they can do as Britain is battling their home problem with the Scotland secession moves, soviet union is already broken and has it's local problem with Ukraine while the Arab world is engrossed with the ISIS threat.
Where would they get foreign help for any other plan B


The north can not really do anything either coup or secession or insurrection, insurrection they started with boko haram has just been crushed


The question should have rather been, what would be the plan B of the Igbos and niger delta after 2019

Make Them Stop to Born Plenty 1st and Stop Almajiri System Wey Dey Give Bokoharam new Recruits B4 them talk of Plan A, B, C