“Buhari Promised To Do One Term” GMB’s One-Term Plan Unfair To North Says Aliyu

by Musa Abdullahi

Governor Babangida Aliyu cautioned against voting for Buhari on the ground that he would only serve for four years and consequently cause power shift back to the South in 2019.

Governor Aliyu also had in the recent past stirred controversy for alleging that President Jonathan himself signed an agreement to serve for one term.

Aliyu was speaking when the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors converged in Lagos from their respective states, dismissed Buhari’s reputation as an anti-corruption crusader, affirming him as a willing collaborator in the human rights and financial abuses that characterised the Sani Abacha era.

Governor Aliyu said: “Buhari promised us that he is going to do one term. The implication of that would result in the short-changing of rotational presidency when it gets to the turn of the North. Even as a young man, Buhari was not a good administrator. He allowed his subordinates to steal the show.”

Present at yesterday’s meeting were Governors Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Jonah Jang (Plateau), Ayo Fayose (Ekiti), Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina), Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe), Usman Dakingari (Kebbi), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Bala Ngilari (Adamawa).

Also present were the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim; Ministers of Agriculture and Power, Dr. Akinwunmi Adeshina and Professor Chinedu Nebo, respectively.