ekt_bear: Obasanjo is not and was not a foolish man.

He effectively spent 1999-2007 taming and cutting the North down to size.

When he had a chance to choose a successor, he choose the most sickly and weak Northerner he could find.

Why did he do these things?

Why didn't he choose an Atiku?

The only threat in Nigeria is not the PDP. How can we forget so quickly that there is still a clique of people, who when their kinsman Yar'Adua became president effectively tried coup?

The same people who have inflated their population figures, higher allocations, more states, etc?

Let us be very careful in what we do.

We should not cut off our nose to spite our face.

The PDP should be defeated, yes. But Obasanjo's project of taming the North must also be continued.