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The assumption in many quarters that the 2027 Presidential Election would be a stroll in the park for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is wishful thinking and likened to counting one’s chicks before they are hatched”.
This is because unlike the 2023 elections when the APC presumably won the presidential election, Nigerians are wiser this time around and are prepared to take the “Bull by the Horn”, right the wrongs and liberate the country from doom.
At a time when other countries are evolving time-tested, standardized strategies to put their countries on sound economic footing, the same cannot be said of Nigeria where the government appears bereft of ideas and is yet to get its bearing with inflation hitting the rooftop at 34%, the highest in the history of the country since independence.
Instead, the APC is strategizing on how to retain power at all cost relying heavily on vote buying, rigging, ballot box snatching and stuffing but most especially manipulation of results with the aid of compromised election umpires who often go unpunished. There might also be an attempt to woo some parts of the country by releasing some people in detention and those under unending trials.
Other evil strategies they have adopted include, but are not limited to, insecurity and hunger. These have proved effective as farmers who produce the bulk of agricultural produce that we rely on cannot go to their farms because of high level insecurity mostly in the northern states resulting in hunger which has traumatized the population.
Aware that they have held the citizens by the scrotum, with no reprieve from anywhere, the government resorts to issuing handouts by way of bags of rice, sugar, beans, and millet to give the impression of a government that cares. Of course, this is confirmation of the maxim that “it is he who holds the palm leaf that the goat will follow”. The people are very hungry and most likely will forget his four years of bad governance and misery.
From every standpoint, the president has been ill-advised. The notion that the North is inconsequential is counterproductive, and the administration is inadvertently digging its own grave. The government fails to understand that there is an extent to which the people can be taken for a ride. They also fail to understand that as it failed in Lagos, the hunger strategy can and will fail again. It failed in Lagos because the majority of the Igbos based in Lagos are self-reliant, independent, and not dependent on government handouts. But the question is: can our Northern brethren resist the temptation of dependency and hunger, because for you to resist or reject, you must have an alternative, be decisive, courageous and determined enough to resist this deadly strategy responsible for poor governance in Nigeria.
The North must be united to rout the current government out of office, and gladly, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has the pedigree, experience, and connections to saddle the affairs of this country back to safety.
Our country has continued to suffer because of the role our leaders played with dollars they allegedly received from Jagaban and APC. But come 2027, those leaders must be identified as working against the interest of the Northern region and blacklisted for bringing the suffering, hunger, and starvation currently facing this country.
The South West is thinking of presenting a candidate in PDP to challenge Tinubu. But let me state categorically that Atiku is not against anyone contesting. 2027 is not about whether or not you like Atiku, or he ran for 20 times. It is about the survival and sustenance of the people of the region.
Thankfully, the North has woken up from slumber and prepared to take the gauntlet. In the words of a former Nigerian president, “All this while, Atiku Abubakar has been contesting, but this time, 2027, we are sending him as our consensus candidate. We cannot continue to treat our own with negativity and betrayal and expect others to like him. Atiku Abubakar is the Northern project come 2027, and we are not hiding it”. If we are to go by this submission, then we can rightly posit that the ruling party is in for a raw deal. This is the spirit needed to dislodge this demon called APC and resist their rigging plans.
Since the introduction of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, the North has had a 10-year glance at the Villa, while the South would have had 18 years by the end of President Tinubu’s first term. For equity, fairness, and justice, the Northern region should naturally present a candidate with capacity, tested, and proven electoral followership that any alliance cannot be out-rigged by government rigging machineries.
The Northern candidate must make sure he liaised with their traditional political partners, the East, to concretise the plan of a secured number of votes needed to withstand the rigging mechanism that may be supported by government agencies.
Atiku Abubakar has a mouthwatering blueprint that will make Nigeria enviable and great again in the eyes of the international community with an improved standard of living and respect even beyond the shores of Nigeria
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC should not only be seen to be unbiased but also incorruptible so that election results announced would be acceptable by all parties to ensure our continued peace and unity as a nation.
Voting for Atiku Abubakar will represent endorsing a new era of national success, rebirth, and emancipation from gross misgovernance of the Tinubu-led administration.
God bless Nigeria!
Chief Anthony Onwuka.
Writes from Washington DC.
20/01/25.
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