2015: WHY POWER MUST RETURN TO THE NORTH by Dr. Yusuf Jubril and - TopicsExpress

2015: WHY POWER MUST RETURN TO THE NORTH by Dr. Yusuf Jubril and Sani Mohammed This is 2014 and in just about seven months from now,the country would be holding a general election of unprecedented significance given that since 1999 except for the brief period of our late President YarAdua, the presidency has been in the South. For the North,no other election in the history of Nigeria is capable of making or marring the political influence and position of the people of the Northern region of Nigeria as the 2015 presidential election. For the majority of Northerners who are by far more politically conscious of the two broad regions that make up Nigeria, it would have been unnecessary to remind our people . However,we have in recent times been witnessing a dangerous trend, a divide and rule tactics by the current government aimed at weakening the determination of the North to reclaim its traditional position of providing leadership for Nigeria polity. Only recently Alhaji Haliru Mohammed and his likes met with President Goodluck Jonathan, Pledging allegiance and promising to betray the North again for him,come 2015 polls. What a shame! The likes of Gulak are not relevant when we have committed elders like Dr.Junaid Mohammed and others who will not fail the North, like governors Nyako and Kwakwanso. The same people like Haliru who benefitted from the same position and public offices that our fore-fathers laboured for which the north is being denied since the time of Obasanjo who betrayed the North. The North is only asking for what it does best in Nigeria;leadership. All regions of the country excel in one area or the other; the West in education, Eastern region business, the North has since independence by divine blessing provided leadership and administration which has kept the country stable and secure and would continue to work for a peaceful country. This is no accident; it is the Almighty Allah that has destined it so. However,there is currently a mediocre interregnum, with an interloper in the name of a Jonathan Southern presidency . It is an aberration; for apart from the six months when Aguyi-Ironsi and his Eastern cohorts took North unawares, the North has provided leadership for the country and has even denied itself by installing a South westerner,Olusegun Obasanjo twice as a president from the South. First Obasanjo on the death of General Murtala Mohammed , even Chief Shonekan when Abiola attempted unsuccessfully to rule, and later Obasanjo again in 1999 till 2007 to help fulfill Allahs will of the leadership role of the North for our country. Obasanjo nearly abused this privilege by attempting to go for a third term ,after he begged and pleaded with the North that brought him to power in the first place to allow him go for a second term. For his betrayer of the North , Obasanjo made amends for his actions making sure that power returned to North by handing over to the late Umar Musa YarAdua,his friends younger brother in the most rigged election of 2007 election as opposed Gen.Muhammadu Buhari that Nigerian people wanted. No matter the arrogance of those in power now , the likes of Obasanjo know that without the North he could not have stepped into the office of the president where Chief Obafemi Awolowo who thought could rule Nigeria failed woefully. Another Yoruba leader who has shown wisdom and knowledge of history to achieve greater benefits for his people unlike Awolowo who was not flexible is Bola Ahmed Tinubu who after initial reluctance in 2011 ,has since seen the light and realized the strategic wisdom in working with the North for a just and sustainable Nigeria. It is against this background that the 2015 presidential election becomes particularly significant for the North. For now power is in the hands of a zone which arrogantly believes that it is entitled to it by virtue of the natural resources , in their region ,whereas every region has contributed its resources to the initial development of the oil they now claim ownership of. They fail to remember politics is a game of numbe