Former governor of Niger State, Engr.
Abdulkadir Kure, has asserted that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is
not in a position to choose a presidential candidate for the North.
Kure made this assertion in an exclusive
interview with media while responding to newspaper reports of yesterday
in which Obasanjo endorsed Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido for the
2015 presidential poll.
Media had reported that Obasanjo had
endorsed the candidature of Lamido and Rivers State Governor Rotimi
Amaechi as the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015.
Obasanjo also claimed that he supported power shift to the North in 2015.
But Kure faulted the political
arrangement on the grounds that the North was capable of deciding on who
would represent it during the 2015 presidential election, and said that
the North would speak with one voice and choose a credible leader to
represent the region.
The ex-governor accused Obasanjo of
messing up Nigeria and particularly the North when he held sway as
president, and added that he should leave the North alone and
concentrate on his poultry farm in Ota, Ogun State.
In his words: “In 2015, the North will
decide for itself and choose a candidate that the whole united North,
acting as one, will support. Obasanjo has messed up the entire country
and particularly the North. We shall not allow him do that again. Let
him go and face his poultry farm and leave us alone.”
“Obasanjo lacks the locus standi to
decide who will represent us in 2015. We will not allow him to do that
again. Let him face his poultry farm in Ota and leave the North alone.”
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