By Chidiebere Onyemaizu
Afraid that if the grand coalition being put together by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the opposition Peoples Democratic party, PDP eventually coalesce into one party and decides to field a Southern candidate in the 2019 presidential election, the North would lose out in the power calculus in view of President Buhari’s performance, Northern political establishment has finally dumped the President.
To retain power in the North, the region’s political and academic intelligentsia are now liaising with the former President to select an acceptable,qualified and young Northern candidate to replace Buhari next year.It was gathered that several academics, monarchs and politicians across parties mainly from the North west and North east have in the past weeks be meeting with Obasanjo.They have ealier inter-faced with former military dictators-Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar who, the The Source was informed, agreed Nigeria under Buhari is drifting and that something must be done to salvage the country urgently.
