A former senator, Shehu Sani, has hinted that the recent visits by ex-Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to past Nigerian presidents from the north were part of a plot to unseat President Bola Tinubu at the 2027 general election. Atiku had in the last two weeks visited former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, and former President Muhammadu Buhari.
After Atiku’s visits, former Kaduna State governor, Mallam El Rufai, also visited Buhari. Sani, on his X account, stated that the series of visits by Atiku had political undertones, as it was the commencement of a plot to remove President Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the eighth senate, stated, “The recent visits by some prominent northern politicians to Daura appears to be the usual Eid homage, but looking deeper and beyond the facade, it’s surreptitiously a new attempt to build a strong northern alliance using ex-President Buhari as a rallying point to challenge and evict President Tinubu’s government in 2027. It’s a regrouping of northern political forces for the next general election.
A project that will eventually kiss the dust…the Daura homage of the disgruntled and the obsessed will fail. Our people in the North should reject these faces and their plots. They have nothing to offer. From the abandoned Baro Port, Ajaokuta, Lake Chad basin refiling and Mambilla hydropower, they failed. They came to power when the North was in the hands of terrorists and left it in the joint hands of terrorists and bandits. The Northern Talakawa should reject their antics.”
