2019: Atiku Is Not An Alternative To Buhari’s Incompetence – Junaid Mohammed

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By Soni Daniel

Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid
Mohammed, on Friday confirmed that Northern elders actually adopted a
resolution to reject President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in the
2019 because of his failure to meet the basic demand of the region.

Mohammed,
who has just stepped down as the running mate of the SDP Presidential
candidate, Donald Duke, who was also sacked by the court on Friday, said
however that the north did not choose Atiku as the candidate it would
support in place of Buhari.

Mohammed, who was a member of the
2014 Constitution Conference, told Saturday Vanguard in an exclusive
interview that the Convener of the Northern Elders’ Forum, Prof Ango
Abdullahi, spoke the minds of the northern people when he declared that
they had rejected Buhari ahead of next year’s election.

According
to Mohammed, the decision by the north to reject Buhari as its
candidate for the 2019 presidential election was taken by no fewer than
18 key northern stakeholders groups, adding that the former Ahmadu
Bello University Vice Chancellor merely echoed the verdict reached by
the northerners after many meetings based on Buhari’s abysmal
performance in office.

Mohammed, who was an aide to former
President Shehu Shagari, said however that Ango Abdullahi went out of
the brief of the north to say that the north had chosen the candidate of
the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, as its choice for the
2019 presidency.

He said: “It is clear that APC and Buhari are
shocked by the decision of NEF not to support him next year and they
have started paying people to attack Ango Abdullahi as if he acted alone
in the decision to dump Buhari ahead of the 2019 elections.

“The
only missing link in what Ango Abdullahi did was to come out openly to
say that the north would support Buhari. It is not so and we never
discussed the idea of supporting Atiku because he is not an alternative
to Buhari in any form.

“The truth of the matter is that there is
no way we can come out openly to support Atiku over Buhari because
Atiku has some credibility issues just as Buhari is incompetent to lead
Nigeria. As it has become evident, that incompetence has held down the
development of Nigeria in the last four years and there is nothing
Buhari can do because he has also been captured by a cabal.

“As
far as I am concerned those who want to endorse Atiku over Buhari have a
lot of explanation to do to the Nigerian people especially regarding
issues of selling the core assets of Nigeria to incompetent cronies of
the Obasanjo era of which Atiku played a major role and today most of
such commercial enterprises have been overtaken by weeds across the
country.

Atiku also needs to explain to Nigerians how he is
better than Buhari in terms of using a cabal to run the system and being
unable to break away from nepotism in the running of the government,”
Mohammed said.

It would be recalled that Ango Abdullahi, a
professor of Agronomy and Convener of the Northern Elders Forum, had
last week disclosed that the North had rejected Buhari ahead of the 2019
election for failing to address the pummelling poverty and
underdevelopment in the north since coming to power in 2015.

Mohammed
also said he quit his post as the running mate to the presidential
candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, when he discovered that
the party was not more than a regional sectional entity, and would not
advance his quest for a national party capable of addressing the
challenges of Nigeria.

Mohammed also said that although he had
jettisoned his post as the running mate to the presidential candidate
and North West Vice Chairman of the party, he would remain as a loyal
party member and contribute his quota to the advancement of the party.

Source:- Vanguardngr

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