Former Senator Alleges Northern Politicians Target President Tinubu’s Seat

Shehu Sani, a former senator, says the recent visits by northern politicians to former President Muhammadu Buhari are calculated moves to work against President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general election.
Recall that in the past few weeks, several northern politicians have visited Buhari in his home town of Daura, Katsina state.
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Aminu Tambuwal, ex-governor of Sokoto, visited Buhari on 22 June.
Ex governor of Kaduna state, Nasir el-Rufai also visited the former president just about 24 hours after Atiku’s visit.
According to Shehu Sani, though the visits have been tagged as “Sallah homage,” they have a political undertone.
The statement read,“The recent visits by some prominent Northern politicians to Daura appear to be the usual Eid homage, but looking deeper and beyond the facade, it’s surreptitiously a new attempt to build a strong northern alliance using ex-President Buhari as a rallying point to challenge and evict President Tinubu’s government in 2027.”
“It’s a regrouping of Northern political forces for the next general election. A project that will eventually kiss the dust.
“They want to resurrect Buhari’s political charm and fanaticism and mobilise the gullible to another hollow and bewildering end.
“They want to stock up and light up the Arewa sentiment without considering the inferno it would eventually generate.”
He added that Buhari, a northerner who served as president for eight years, did not make a significant impact on the nation.
“They had power and wasted it. What do they want to do with it again?” the former senator queried.
“A southerner is in power just for one year. It’s too early for the desperate and power-hungry northern elite to start plotting.
“The south never did that to Buhari. Their intended action has the capacity of ruining the democratic process and wrecking the fragile unity of the country when the south is awakened to this reality. Their obsession with power is condemnable.
“Opposition to Tinubu from the point of policies, promises and programs of his administration is a democratic right of any Nigerian.