The emergence of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar as the consensus aspirant of the Northern political leaders in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party has rekindled the old rivalry with his erstwhile boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

The former president is said to have gone back to the trenches, not only to scuttle Atiku’s chances but to also ensure that the emerging political homogeneity in the north is broken, leaving the zone in fragments too weak to achieve the unity required to clinch the presidency.

Daily Sun learnt last night that the former President is determined to undermine the Mallam Adamu Ciroma-led Northern Political Leaders Forum [NPLF] by raising a challenge to break an emerging solidarity in the zone, which has already seen the major contenders namely Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Aliyu Gusau abandoning their quest and pledging to support the aspirant that has emerged.

We gathered that Obasanjo is already looking beyond the Ciroma group to rally support for the emergence of ‘Northern Alternatives’ to replace Atiku in the event that a Jonathan Presidency becomes a hard sell. Four current governors, two apiece from North West and North East are already on the card and the former president is working assiduously to throw up one of them as the alternative in the event that the bottom falls off his support for Jonathan.

Daily Sun learnt on good authority that the meeting of three governors in Jigawa two days ago convened by Governor Sule Lamido may well fall into the former president’s agenda of producing an alternative aspirant, a move the governors have already owned up to constitute the sole agenda of their meeting even as they insist on not being propelled by anybody.

Meanwhile the three governors, now known as G-3 included Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto and Murtala Nyako of Adamawa say their move is an altruistic one to save the ruling party from itself given the obvious polarization now ensuing with the apparent abandonment of zoning.

Former President Obasanjo , an informed political leader from the north told us yesterday, even before the emergence of a consensus aspirant, had reached out to the gladiators, through third parties, to drop their ambition.
However, it was gathered that the move by the former president may have hit the rocks following Atiku’s emergence as the consensus aspirant. But Obasanjo appears undeterred, according to sources, in his sworn quest to discredit Ciroma and the Northern leaders by his plot to raise a challenge to what a source privy to the plot describes as “alternative consensus candidate”

An informed leader who claims to be privy to Obasanjo’s manouvres said the former president needs to be stopped before he jeorpadises the collective interest of the north and, by extension Nigeria. He railed against Obasanjo for openly encouraging President Goodluck Jonathan to run in 2011 in breach of the power sharing formula which he said is enshrined in Section 7 of the amended PDP Constitution.




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From OBJ to Atiku YOU GO TAKE !!!!

Who is obj to disorganise the north politically,what did he do in his own state,he cannot even handle gbenga daniel,4get 2007 he was the president then not now,and 4 atiku he obj shd remeber dat all fight they fought atiku won all even when he was the president.he is afraid of what wil befall hi if atiku become president

Robber moves against Robber.

I expected that.
The chicken has come home to "roast".
OBJ will sleep no more in or out of Ota.

I expected that.
The chicken has come home to "roast".
OBJ will sleep no more in or out of Ota.

i wish it is in my hands to give out the presidency, ATIKU definitely will be my hero.
all i have been praying for is the emergence of an anti obasanjo candidate to the offoice of the president.
our God is not asleep and in his own time, nigerians will be free.
atiku shld get an igbo vice and a yoruba senate president.
he shld do his best to be the next president so that nigerians will know the stuff obasanjo is made of.
nigerians must know how obasanjo became a billionaire over-night.
nigerians need to know how he became so influential that he cld convience his own daughter inlaw to sleep with him.
a country where morally dead men are leaders. men like bode george and tonny annenih are in my prayers daily that they will one day be visited by god of venegance.

@1025,

You have spoken well. We need a shift from OBJ's machination. GEJ will have to pull one of the greatest stunts in history to win the election fairly.

i hope OBJ doesnt die in Prison

he has forgotten so soon how he managed to escape his travails under Abacha

God forbid what if Atiku becomes the President, what becomes of him?

Kirikiri straight!

OBJ shd go and sit down, he shd go and nail OGD first and leave Atiku alone

I trust Atiku tho, he has the machinery to fight the eediot to a standstill.

whats with the feud between Nyako and Atiku? i hope they dont send assasins to each other one day.


Now all said and done, i dont want PDP to win

For 7 months now we have had no electricity. OBJ condemned us to a life of poverty and backwardness. What does he want to do again? At Banex plaza Nigerians are suffering noise pollution because of the incessant noise of generators. All this is due to the greed and failure of OBJ. Nigerians STAND UP and say no to Obj and his stooges. Lets defend Democracy. Support Atiku Abubakar for President

OBJ and Atiku both ruled Nigeria for 8 years. If one was a thief,so was the other.If one was good,so was the other.If one was fat,so was the other.If one was ugly,so was the other

Comparing OBJ to Atiku is akin to comparing night and day! The comments on Atiku here are mis-informed at best. That man Atiku is a monumentally currupt beast, capable of selling Nigeria to secure the interest of his families and cronies. He will NEVER win. More credible nothern candidates on other platforms will simply dilute whatever dominance he may muster.

and as for this -

nigerians need to know how he became so influential that he cld convience his own daughter inlaw to sleep with him.

He was the President of Nigeria dude. That makes him a very powerful man. Even a local goverment chairman could have pulled this off - depending on who the woman offcourse. Many women are simply drawn to powerful men and some will find it so irresistable they would encourage it in the first place!