With President Muhammadu Buhari barely
two years in office, members of his kitchen
cabinet, who have constituted themselves
into a cabal, are already looking for his
successor.


Their actions are prompted by growing
questions over alleged governance deficits
of President Buhari’s tenure.


Members of the cabal running Aso Rock
are no longer comfortable with Buhari’s
performance and are worried that the
North could lose the Presidency in 2019 if
nothing was urgently done.


Leading members of the cabal are largely
from Adamawa, Borno and Katsina States.


The high-stake game is borne out of the
deep knowledge of the President’s health,
which has fuelled speculations that Buhari
may not run for a second term on health
grounds.


Age is also not on his side. Born on
December 17, 1942, President Buhari would
be close to 77 years old by 2019.


Consequently, the North, which fought
tooth and nail to retrieve power from the
South, has started looking beyond Buhari.


Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, who
like the United States President-elect,
Donald Trump, lacks any prior experience
in government, has been fingered by the
cabal as a worthy replacement for Buhari,
come 2019.


To give more teeth to this quirky plot,
some match-making by the cabal between
Dangote and Buhari’s daughter, Fatima, is
being fine-tuned but running into stormy
waters.


Dangote, according to sources, is already
warming up for the marriage and for a shot
at the Presidency.


But Fatima, who, like her stepmother Aisha
Buhari, has scant regard for the cabal’s ar­
rowhead, has “out-rightly” rejected the
choice of Dangote.


She equally rejected the persuasive
pressure of another influential member of
the infamous cabal.


As 2017 draws near and in connection with
crowning a successor to Buhari, key politi­
cal realignments are expected to start
taking shape.


A serving minister in the Buhari
administration had recently shown how
fluid the situation is by reportedly sending
a text message to a member of the
Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), asking
about a “post-Buhari” scenario.


Today, Buhari has become very unpopular
in the North due to the inability of his
government to deliver governance that
directly impacts the people.


On the other hand, the nature of the
appointments he has made, defined by lack
of consultation and inclusiveness, has al­
ienated many.


The wife of the president had recently in a
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Hausa Service interview lamented that
most officials of the government are not
known to the President and the first family,
adding that they are usurpers who did noth­
ing to help the All Progressives Congress
(APC) struggle in 2015.


The usurpers she was referring to in that
controversial interview are the core
members of the cabal that call the shots in
Aso Rock, notwithstanding Buhari’s claims
to the contrary.


The core four-member presidency cabal
under reference reportedly didn’t vote in
2015 because they didn’t register to vote.


As the opposition carefully watches the
unfolding development and fine-tunes its
plot, the emerging poser is how the cabal
hopes to pull off the audacious gamble.


This remains a subject of speculation
considering that they lack political skills
and are very unpopular.


In her famous interview, Aisha Buhari,
when asked to name those who had
hijacked the government, declared: “You
will know them if you watch television.”


One of the key cabal arrowheads has to-
date allegedly cornered more than N5
billion school furniture contracts from
Kaduna, Katsina and Sokoto States.


The Kaduna State contract has however
been terminated over “non-performance”
by Governor Nasir el-Rufai, who
unilaterally awarded it to Kaduna Furniture
and Construction Company (KFCC) without
due process.


The initial sum for the Kaduna furniture
contract was N1 billion.


El-Rufai has never hidden the fact that his
ultimate goal is the presidency. He has
consistently told Kaduna State people that
he is a one-term governor. The bad blood
between a key member of the cabal, the
chairman of KFCC and El-Rufai, is re­
portedly linked to the cabal offering the
presidency to Dangote.


Sources further revealed that it was the
last gasp effort to stop the Dangote-
Fatima wedding using the Independent
Corrupt Practices and Other Related Of­
fences Commission (ICPC) that caused the
anti-corruption agency’s chairman to be
suspended from office before Buhari inter­
vened.


The cabal had sacked the ICPC Chairman,
Ekpo Nta, without the President’s knowl­
edge – because he did not play ball – over
claims that his tenure had expired.


Ekpo was reportedly ordered by the cabal
to arrest Gimba Kumo, a former managing
director of the Federal Mortgage Bank.


Similar efforts with the National Security
Adviser (NSA) and the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) re­
portedly failed.


But the cabal never gave up, hence the
reports in the media about the arrest of
Kumo.



http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/2019-north-looks-for-a-suitable-candidate-dangote-el-rufai-in-forefront/

2019 election will be sweeter than honey because of many dramas . Well north want to control the power while the south will be fighting themselves, shame. North is very strong because they made their unity through religion, they feed upon the fanaticism of their gullible illiterate ones to match to power , this is what south don't have.

"Members of the cabal running Aso Rock are no longer comfortable with Buhari’s performance and are worried that the North could lose the Presidency in 2019 if nothing was urgently done"


Nigeria is a joke...

Buhari Remains a Huge Mistake

SamuelAnyawu:


Buhari Remains a Huge Mistake

It's high time we quarantined the ediots that brought this 'Huge mistake' upon Nigeria.

Dangote is the only northerner I can vote for president.

Lmao

Pathetic wishful imaginations of wailers. Buhari remains Godsent! This phase Nigeria is going through is very necessary if we are to survive. Nobody said change would be easy. But for once looters are afraid to steal!

Noo.. They better bring IBB

See how they force feed us with stupidity, manifestation of an acclaim Nigeria hereditary: always there to rule.

How do will tell these miscreants, true federalism is all we need. The country is sinking; people are dying as a result of bad government policy, mismanagement and regional sentiment yet these nincompoop have bluntly refused to see but to start preparing for the next election

Thebreakingtimes??
Bye..

"Breakingtimes"?

blackpanda:
Lmao

Pathetic wishful imaginations of wailers. Buhari remains Godsent! This phase Nigeria is going through is very necessary if we are to survive. Nobody said change would be easy. But for once looters are afraid to steal!

Question 1... N500m MTN bribe to the chief of staff

Questiin 2.... N270m used to clear grass in the IDP camp by SGF

Explain with the help of a diagram, the event that took place in question 2 above

El rufai !!?? Never would such people rule Nigeria again. We need moderates not extremist.

Typing...

If this news is true,Nigeria is indeed in danger

richidinho:


Question 1... N500m MTN bribe to the chief of staff

Questiin 2.... N270m used to clear grass in the IDP camp by SGF

Explain with the help of a diagram, the event that took place in question 2 above

Lol na real "aid of diagram".

I dont know where y'all manufacture these baseless ridiculous fantasies Just looking for how to derail govt fight against corruption. If i ask u now the name of the company that was awarded the contract to clear grass or how the money was paid, you duick to swallow hook line and sinker any lies that will derail govt.

Long story' give and take, Baba must contest 2019. Aisha will forever love to be adressed as first lady.
Abi who nor like better thing.. As for that tiny man@elrufia, his dream of being president is one big joke that make no sense to Nigerians.... May God help us

bonechamberlain:
El rufai !!?? Never would such people rule Nigeria again. We need moderates not extremist.

El rufai? I would rather vote Buhari!

blackpanda:
Lmao

Pathetic wishful imaginations of wailers. Buhari remains Godsent! This phase Nigeria is going through is very necessary if we are to survive. Nobody said change would be easy. But for once looters are afraid to steal!

It remains wishful thinking cos I know very soon ,very very soon, things will only get better and Nigerians will know Buhari is really God-sent.

2019 is like 3yrs from now

and why el-rufai?

Buhari better run for 2nd term

Southerners r not united. #shame

walcut:

El rufai? I would rather vote Buhari!

having an illiterate extremist can be better, but having an educated extremist like el rufai must be rejected.

Alhaji Alico Dangote/Com. Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole for presidency in 2019. Full stop.

ybalogs:

It remains wishful thinking cos I know very soon ,very very soon, things will only get better and Nigerians will know Buhari is really God-sent.

God forgive you

He may not forgive you sha

CHANGE

Igbo president or Notting.....

Ebuka007:
Igbo president or Notting.....

Igbo means weed in my language. Good day to you.

mistabiola:


Igbo means weed in my language. Good day to you.

ur type is just unfortunate

Ebuka007:

ur type is just unfortunate

Maybe your keyboard is malfunctioning