Everyone now has a theory on why Pres. Goodluck Jonathan lost. Niger governor Babangida Aliyu says it is because he failed to keep to the terms of the single term pact he signed. Ahmed Gulak, the president’s former aide, says it’s because of moles like PDP chairman, Adamu Muazu. A PDP senatorial candidate from Osun said it’s because the president
acted like president of the Ijaws and not of the whole country. Now Gov. Kwankwaso of Kano who is now a senator-elect, has added his voice.
Kwankwaso said that the president’s loss is as a result of the way he “regionalised” the politics of the country.
The governor who was speaking to journalists in Abuja accused the
president of mishandling the relationship between the North and the
South South of the country, and choosing to listen to the wrong people.
“I believe the President is naïve. You know he had all the
opportunities, I don’t blame him, he did not play such a game at the
national level for some time. He didn’t know who is who in this country,
he was just looking at faces and those who were dressed very well. He
meets them at the airport and he smiles and says ‘these are good
people,’ he sits down and listens to gossips , ‘oh this man is bad, this
man is good in so so places’ and sometimes he doesn’t even know the
names and at the end of the day he made a big mistake by picking the
wrong people.
“Look let me tell you, our leaders who were in this game before us,
those who were in the 1st Republic especially, they told us so much
about our friends in this country and if you happen to come from South
South, where they were very close to our leaders they had done
everything possible to work with that part of the country, but of course
he vandalised the opportunity to the extent that many of us felt that
with him there, we have no future as a people and as individuals and
that is why we had to come and organise ourselves to defeat him.
“Look at what the wife was saying that northerners were bearing
children and throwing them away. How could you say that to northerners?
With due humility we are masters of the game. You cannot stay and insult
us and get away with it. Democracy is a game of numbers, whether you
are almajiri or professor, everybody has one vote that was why we went
back and put almijiris together to get about 2 million votes.”
Credit: thescoopng
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