2015: Jonathan Responds to Obasanjo’s Plot to Put Northern President

President Goodluck Jonathan has allegedly
commissioned a group of political experts to begin to
counteract ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo's possible
secret plans to work for the emergence of a Northerner as
the President in 2015.
According to the source of SaharaReporters Jonathan's team is
charged with strategising on the best manoeuvres to contain
Mr. Obasanjo's moves.
President Jonathan has no clear understanding of where Mr.
Obasanjo stands in the crisis tearing apart the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), but the President has decided not to
take chances by ignoring Obasanjo.
The Northern members of the team set up by the President
have been mandated to lead the first stage of Mr. Jonathan's
campaigns and consultations across the entire Northern states.
"Some of the President's pundits have swung into action in the
'core' Northern states of Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara,
Kebbi, Katsina and northern Kaduna," the source disclosed.
He added that Jerry Gana, Jonathan Silas Zwingina,
Abdulkadir Kure, and Isaiah Balat were among those assigned
to run the early stages of the President's campaign in the
Middle Belt.
"Another group led by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and Barrister
Ahmed Gulak is working on the same mission in the North-
East axis," he said.
The source revealed that a key strategy of the President's group
was to seek the support of top Islamic and Christian clerics in
the North. The well-funded presidential group is offering
millions of naira to selected clerics in return for their political
sympathy for Mr. Jonathan's reelection campaign.
"Mr. President is aware of Chief Obasanjo's previous
antecedents. Look at [Mr. Obasanjo's] close relationship with
the arrowheads of the rebellion in the PDP. He is the one who
made Sule Lamido, Aliyu Babangida of Niger and Wammako
of Sokoto. It's the same thing with Nyako in Adamawa State.
"We gathered that Obasanjo is having serious problems with
the IBB [Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida] and Abdulsalami circle
that made it possible for him to be president in 1999. And we
know that Chief Obasanjo wants to settle the Umaru Yar'Adua
saga that led to the emergence of Jonathan. He thinks it is best
to help install a Northern President in 2015. And he is also not
happy with Jonathan's style and some power blocks influencing
the president," the source added.

Via: Sahara Reporter