… Insists North shouldn’t govern after 8 years

Indications have emerged that the campaign to return power to the South may be back on track with former President Olusegun Obasanjo leading the charge.

This is despite the emergence of a northerner as the presidential flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is the major opposition party, amidst rumours of the ruling All Progressives Alliance (APC) was shopping for a consensus candidate from the North.

Blueprint reliably gathered that Obasanjo, who has been openly critical of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, has insisted that the 2023 presidency should be zoned to the South, in the interest of equity and fairness.

A source close to the former president told our correspondent that Obasanjo was not pleased with the choice of his former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as the PDP presidential candidate and was already moving against him.

Atiku had fallen out of grace with Obasanjo in the run up to the 2003 general elections for reportedly working against his principle’s second term bid.

“After the PDP Special Convention on May 28, 2022, Chief Obasanjo had expressed displeasure over the outcome of the convention which threw up Atiku Abubakar as the party’s flag bearer,” the source, who did not want to be named, told our correspondent.

He said Obasanjo vowed to work against his former ally, who he has at different times called unprintable names, insisting he could not be trusted.

According to the close associate of the former president, “OBJ had urged Peter Obi, who is the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to work with the Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike, who was Atiku’s closest rival at the primary election.

“The governor was betrayed by some of his fellow governors and close ally despite his huge contributions to the party and these individuals. So he is unhappy with the party and the outcome of the primary election.”

Speaking further, he said Obasanjo had met with the former Governor of Cross River state, Donald Duke, to discuss his commitment to move power back to the South and had mandated him to reach out to Governor Wike and other aggrieved members of the PDP, as well as to rally his own people especially from the South.

“The former governor is to persuade Wike is to support Obi’s campaign and lend underground support and possibly finance him because he is aggrieved.

“OBJ said all hands must be on deck to make power return to the South, arguing that Nigeria should not be governed by the North after eight years.”

The source further stated that, “Duke, who described the outcome of the PDP convention as an impulsive decision to embarrass Wike and the South, pledged to implement the former president’s command.

“According to him, it will be counter-productive to the South-south and South-east and set them back if they are schemed out hence they needed to come out and form and a formidable opposition against the North.”

Obasanjo, who is out of the country, is scheduled to meet with Duke, Wike, Obi, and other strategic members of the team when he returned, the source added.

https://www.blueprint.ng/southern-presidency-obj-backs-obi-woos-wike-others/

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OBI

Hahahaha Wike and OBi will be like salt and sand mixture

D same obi pandora......have been saying it, he won't win 1 state even in south east

OBJ dey catch cruise

Nobody listens to Obasanjo again.. .. Yoruba rubbished him .. northerners help scatter the rubbish

Even Tinubu went to minna .. but w no go ota..
Maybe Na why ota juju catch am for palace he begin vomit..

Yoruba sef

Mandate2023:
D same obi pandora......have been saying it, he won't win 1 state even in south east

OBJ dey catch cruise

I am looking forward to tinubu disgrace on Tuesday.

Peter Obi is the goal.


Every sensible Nigerian is backing him.


Vote right for once,vote Obi.

Salvador1:
I am looking forward to tinubu disgrace on Tuesday.

There's nothing like tinubu disgrace.....south west is getting d ticket and it will be a win win battle

I’ve said it before and I will say it again for Nairalanders to know my stand.

Obi has a chance at the presidency.

I see him becoming the candidate of the south.

I see the south uniting behind him.

I see Tinubu raising Peter Obi’s hand.

And if we can get Kwankwaso or Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as his running mate, heaven knows they’d defeat any candidate.

Imagine the votes of the entire south, the votes of the MiddleBelt and a fraction of votes from the core north through Kwankwaso or SLS, tell me why they won’t win?

And now OBJ is about to join the train, forget.

The only antidote to this calculation is if Osinbajo emerges APC candidate.

Or Amaechi, to a great extent.

If APC goes north as well, then Obi will win the election before Election Day.

Obasanjo will NEVER back an Igbo presidency. I am happy that Sam Ohabumwa blew him out of the water the other time he visited him at Ottah. Prior to that, Obasanjo was making his subtle deceiving grunts in favor of an Igbo presidency but when Ohabumwa put him on the spot, he denied it vehemently! This was a guy who basically refused making Peter Odili the Vice president to Yaradua because of his ethnic Igbo identity and will blame it on corruption, even when Goodluck Jonathan he picked as the substitute is corruption personafied. If Obasanjo wanted an Igbo president, he would have made an Igbo the deputy to Yaradua.

Obi's mandate I stand

Which kind beer parlor news be this one

It's becoming clearer. In Peter Obi mandate I Stan
Vote for Peter Obi for president.

Forget about tribalism, forget about Atiku, forget about Tinubu and Vote Competence

Way to go
by voting Peter Obi , Nigerians will be voting the right candidate .

Wow! That's a big one!

Frigga13:
Nobody listens to Obasanjo again.. .. Yoruba rubbished him .. northerners help scatter the rubbish

Even Tinubu went to minna .. but w no go ota..
Maybe Na why ota juju catch am for palace he begin vomit..

Yoruba sef

Since Nigeria stopped listening to obasanjo, they became the poverty capital of the world, is obasanjo poor? No, anyway enjoy your poverty since you are proud of it, I wish you more happy poverty.

DOTian:
Obasanjo will NEVER back an Igbo presidency. I am happy that Sam Ohabumwa blew him out of the water the other time he visited him at Ottah. Prior to that, Obasanjo was making his subtle deceiving grunts in favor of an Igbo presidency but when Ohabumwa put him on the spot, he denied it vehemently! This was a guy who basically refused making Peter Odili the Vice president to Yaradua because of his ethnic Igbo identity and will blame it on corruption, even when Goodluck Jonathan he picked as the substitute is corruption personafied. If Obasanjo wanted an Igbo president, he would have made an Igbo the deputy to Yaradua.

He didn't back Odili because he was most incompetent.

He could have done better by raising Donald Duke, even as VP but OBJ really didn't want anyone who could think independent of him.

Achilles881:



Since Nigeria stopped listening to obasanjo, they became the poverty capital of the world, is obasanjo poor? No, anyway enjoy your poverty since you are proud of it, I wish you more happy poverty.

Baba Obasanjo Na Seniorman till tomorrow.. Na his people fall his hand

They even made video of him runing at the end airport and said he’s running from sai baba

Na Yoruba people bring down their man.. Tinubu media was unleashed terrible and they outcastes him and worship Tinubu

I’m not yoruba

ok

Obasanjo is not a big political figure in present day nigeria.

But he is only detribalized nigerian I know.
He see everybody is equal to everybody.

I dewan hoping forward to politicians shameful on Tuesday

8 years.... Full term President - South West
8 years.... Full term VP - South West

Yet you want one of yours to clinch another presidential ticket for next 8 years with Muslim/Muslim arrangement.....


Na only you Waka come ba?

South east or North continues.....OUK

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The revolution is on....... Sawore

Mandate2023:
D same obi pandora......have been saying it, he won't win 1 state even in south east

OBJ dey catch cruise

We have heard you.