Why There Is No qualified Heir To Buhari’s 12 Million Vote-Bank – Osita Okechukwu
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Osita Okechukwu, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), stated on Sunday that none of the prominent politicians currently positioning themselves to inherit the late former President Muhammadu Buhari’s 12 million-strong “vote bank” have the necessary credentials to succeed him.
Okechukwu disclosed this while addressing journalists during an interdenominational church service in honour of Buhari in Abuja.
The former Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, noted that Buhari appealed to the North because he was an honest man.
He said: “With the greatest respect to prominent politicians who
expectedly want to inherit late President Buhari’s much celebrated 12
million vote-bank, one wishes to submit that the Buhari’s shoe is too
big and his uncommon humanity, integrity, transparency quotient and
moral compass are antithetical and herculean task to their aspirations.
“None of them throughout their public service has either the moral
compass nor ever waged anti-graft war against primitive accumulation.
They have no character strength like Buhari for emulation and never
campaigned for election without the forbidden and unlawful baggage of
vote-buying.
“We must appreciate that the mass appeal rating of Buhari as Mai Gaskiya
(Honest Man) and their support for him was predicated on careful
scrutiny of his transparency and truthfulness spanning a period of over
50 years of public service.
“The masses are aware that some of these characters are those who
allegedly stripped our state owned enterprises like NEPA, Aluminum
Smelter Company, Ajaokuta Steel et al, in the name of privatization
without commensurate result.”
Okechukwu recalled that between 1975 and 2025, Buhari served as governor
of the defunct North-East, Federal Commissioner of Petroleum Resources,
General Officer Commanding (GOC) of three Divisions, Military Head of
State, Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and civilian President,
without blemish.
The former VON DG said he is at a loss on the obsession of key aspirants
of “our sister political party, ADC who wittingly or unwittingly belief
they can ride on Buhari’s 12 million vote-bank with northern card
emblem; as if they are unaware that the northern electorates are one of
the most sophisticated and altruistic”.
He added: “Flying northern card is a mirage because northern
electorates are one of the most sophisticated, demonstrated by their
patriotism in voting more for Abiola in 1993 and obliging Tinubu in 2023
more votes than the southern electorates.
“Those who crave access to the famed Buhari’s 12 million vote-bank are
consciously pitching the North against the South in a bid to truncate
the two terms convention for each region.
“They should have a rethink, because equity, justice and fairness constitute the bedrock of our democracy.
“At any rate we have nothing to fear as none of them has either Buhari’s
moral compass or discipline and most importantly they never subscribed
to Malam Aminu Kano’s Talakawa (proletarian) tradition to qualify for
northern cult followership.
“Luckily their Kangaroo bid to railroad majority members of Buhari’s
defunct Congress of Progressive Change (CPC) to ADC failed woefully
courtesy of ex-governors Tanko Almakura and Aminu Masari.”
He warned that they should thread softly so as not to scuttle the
rotation convention of the Presidency, which has become one of the
guardrails of Nigeria’s 4th Republic Democracy and binding chord of the
unity of the country.
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