[size=14pt]2011: Why we oppose Jonathan’s candidature – ACF[/size]
Cover Stories Jun 9, 2010
By Emeka Mamah

KADUNA—THE Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, yesterday, gave reasons why the North would not support President Goodluck Jonathan’s bid to contest the 2011 elections, even as it said that it was solidly behind President Jonathan’s administration because “it is a product of fate and constitutionality.”

The ACF position, however, came against the backdrop of support for Jonathan to vie for the 2011 Presidency by the former acting National Chairman of the Progressive Peoples’ Alliance, PPA, Comrade Adamu Song, who said the ACF was not speaking for his own part of the North in Adamawa State.

Song also criticised Senator Kanti Bello, a PDP member from Katsina State and another chieftain of the All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP, from Kano State, Alhaji Abdurrahaman Dan_Mallam, Danmadami Daura, on the issue.

He said ACF and other notable northerners such as Senator Kanti Bello who accused Jonathan of betraying late President Umaru Yar’Adua had no mandate of northerners to speak for them on the matter.

He said the only thing that could stop Jonathan from contesting was non-performance within the few months he had before the said election.

Raging controversy

The National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Mr. Anthony Sani, made the organization’s position known on the raging controversy of whether the North would support President Jonathan to run or not, just as  Song spoke in a separate interview on the matter.

Sani said: “When you ask whether ACF and thus the North will go against President Goodluck Jonathan should he decide to run in 2011, you at once personalize the whole issue. To be sure, ACF is yet to receive any reports on this matter from its committee on political affairs.

“However, it is necessary to point out that ACF is in full support of Goodluck’s government because, it is a product of both fate and constitutionality.


President Jonathan decorated with Nigeria's highest honour, the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, GCFR.
“We pray the government succeeds in delivering on the promise of democracy. But, when it comes to the politics of rotation, ACF must consider the fact of history that the South has had eight years and overriding need to preserve gentleman agreements in our mechanism of community living often manifested in social contracts among individuals and groups.

“The point being made is that a person who takes advantage of his vantage position to vitiate an agreement by his own party is most unlikely going to deliver on the promises of his own campaigns.

“What is more, it is morally preposterous for ACF to go against zoning at a time it is the turn of the North, especially when regard is paid to the fact that there are qualified candidates in the North, who can provide national leadership by way of order and direction.”

But accusing some ACF members of being mere “paper tigers”, Comrade Song challenged Senator Kanti Bello and the group among others to produce evidence that President Goodluck Jonathan betrayed late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua or keep quiet on the matter for ever.

Betrayal of Yar’Adua

He argued that some northerners as Senator Bello were being sentimental on the issue of Jonathan being sworn in as President on the death of the former President adding however, that they were speaking for themselves and not for the entire North.

Song said rather than accuse Jonathan of betraying Yar’Adua, it was the former First Lady, Turai, and members of Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet that betrayed President Jonathan, as former Vice President.

He said: “How did Jonathan betray Yar’Adua? Is Jonathan God that prescribed death for the former President? Yar’Adua’s death was not caused by anybody; it was natural.

“It was Turai and members of Yar’Adua political family that actually betrayed Jonathan by taking his former boss to Saudi Arabia without informing him as the then Vice President, although they were there on a joint ticket.

“People like Kanti Bello cannot speak for the North. He cannot even speak for his tiny community in Katsina State. The senator is representing a very minute fraction of the North in the National Assembly and he should not arrogate to himself the power to speak for the entire North.

“The issue of zoning of political offices by the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, was a political exigency which is unconstitutional. Zoning of the Presidency trivializes the highest political office in the land.

“Jonathan is the master of his own fate in this matter, because Nigerians will support him if he performs well between now and next year. It is not whether he is a northerner or a southerner. It is also not the problem of tribe or religion but performance.

“In fact, if Jonathan does well, he will defeat or floor General Ibrahim Babangida who is a very formidable political opponent to him now in any election. Jonathan should not listen to people like Kanti Bello or some members of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, because they are paper tigers; they have no political bases of their own.

“Most of them have not visited their communities in several years. They come and settle in Kaduna and without contact with their home states, stay here to dish out useless press statements about the North.”

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War up North! Will the true Northerners please stand up!
Demons and criminals like IBB, Kanti Bello and Tanko Yakasai talk like the "North" is the four walls of their family compounds. Rubbish!

It is time to scream out loud, "not in our name!".

Is there anyone who still want to argue there is one indivisible north?

THE SUMMIT: The untold story of 2011 game plan:…Why the US wants Jonathan
From: ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
The seeming move by a group within the Peoples Democratic Party, otherwise known as the PDP Reform Group, did not just begin today. Sun Summit can authoritatively reveal that the movement was the climax of the series of attempts, which were made in recent past, beginning from 2007 to seize political power by a certain group.

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In the beginning

Sun Summit has it on a good authority that the 2007 election was never designed to hold, and at the centre of it all was the desire by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to emerge Nigeria’s life President. He had hoped to achieve that, through the infamous Third Term agenda. However, when his bid for tenure elongation failed, the next line of action was to heat up the polity. The agenda could not materialize, largely because the north moved against it, as it was perceived as a threat to the understanding over power rotation between the geo- political zones in the country. The desire to heat up the polity, Sun Summit further learnt was to prepare grounds for a state of emergency and create a non conducive atmosphere that would eventually make it impossible to hold any meaningful election.

According to sources, the alleged use of the anti- corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission then to go after perceived opponents, the setting up of the administrative panel that eventually blacklisted certain political opponents and the attempt to sack former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the presidency among others, were all part of the strategy to scuttle the 2007 election, even as the source further said that “while Obasanjo was busy doing all these, he also had the fall back arrangement of at least installing his own person by hook or crook, as President.”

The West connection

The West too, Sun Summit gathered were not too sure the 2007 elections would be conducted, even as they were never in support of Obasanjo’s tenure elongation plan. They feared that his macabre plan to foist himself, permanently on the nation would undermine the eight year democratic experiment and that in turn would have threatened their economic interests in Nigeria.

Our source further revealed that former Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani, was seen by the West as a “credible person” to handle an interim government arrangement that would have ushered in a new dispensation.

But Senator Nnamani, had however denied severally that he was nursing any ambition then to head an interim government, should 2007 fail to materialise, even as he disclosed in an exclusive interview sometime in 2008 with this reporter that he neither pursued anyone’s agenda during the third term debacle.

http://odili.net/news/source/2010/jun/8/515.html

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The Sun never fails, when it comes to publishing rubbish and tales by moonlight. Obj wanting to be life president?. . . Rubbish! The story is so ridiculous that you wonder how on Earth the editor gets paid.

“What is more, it is morally preposterous for ACF to go against zoning at a time it is the turn of the North, especially when regard is paid to the fact that there are qualified candidates in the North, who can provide national leadership by way of order and direction.
THIS IS SO ANNOYING, WHAT QUALIFIED CANDIDATES, WHAT NATIONAL LEADERSHIP, IN THE WESTERN COUNTRIES ALL THESE SO CALLED QUALIFIED CANDIDATES  WOULD BE SITTING ON THEIR BLOODY A.S.S IN A PENITENTIARY. LOOTERS YOU CANT STAY OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR ONCE,GO TRY AND EARN A LIVING OUTSIDE THE CORRIDORS OF POWER