2019: Buhari will face massive failure in the North East-Sen Bukar Ibrahim

2019: Buhari faces imminent defeat in North East – Sen Bukar IbrahiM

*Says Massive rigging will not save him, APC worse than PDP

ABUJA- STRONG indications have emerged that ahead of the 2019 Presidential election, trouble may have reared its head in the camp of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari.

As part of the problem, indications have emerged   that the North Eastern states of Yobe, Borno, Bauchi, Gombe , Adamawa and Taraba may vote against the continuation of  Muhammadu Buhari in office as President  of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the APC.

Signs were publicly given by one of the frontline  politicians  and Chieftains of the APC from the zone , Senator Bukkar Abba Ibrahim (Yobe East) in Abuja weekend where he declared that massive rigging may not save Buhari from the imminent defeat as realities on ground show that Nigerians are worse of under him within the last three and half years than they were,  throughout the 16 years of governance under the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) from May 1999- May 2015.Bukar Ibrahim

The three term serving senator and former governor of Yobe State spoke during the world- wide Internet Launch of his book ‘Poorlitics’ and 70th Birthday  Celebration held at the Auditorium of the Barcelona Hotel, Wuse 11.

Senator Bukkar Ibrahim whose wife Khadijat Ibrahim currently serves as Minister of State , Foreign Affairs under the Buhari Presidency, in a seventeen paragraph written speech delivered at the occasion said that the North East should not be taken for granted since it is not a must for it to support Buhari from the North West  as both zones  only came together for the first  time under  one political umbrella  in 2015 since several decades of party formations and democratic governance in the country from 1950s till date .

Bukar Ibrahim said, “In fact, the politics of the North East has always been different from the politics of the North West and it was under APC that we all united for the first time. As we move towards the elections , I have to give a dire warning to the APC that things are no longer the way they were in 2015 when we road to power on a cloud of euphoria believing that things will change for better. Simply put, things have not changed and many things are getting  worse and the people are bitter . We should not assume that we can win even with massive rigging.

“The economy has gone down because of our action and inaction and we are blaming the past too much rather than solving the present problems. I am going to give a dire warning. Let the North East not be taken for granted that we must support APC.

” Our interest in the North East has always been progressive and I will personally be watching for required  improvements in the APC before the elections.

” Improvements that can guarantee victory such as respecting the rule of law and releasing political prisoners as well as unselective war against corruption as against one sided witch hunt”.

Senator Ibrahim who declared that if APC under Buhari did not get its bearings in terms of good governance before the 2019 general elections, the North East will have no any other option than to vote for candidate of another political parties , one of whom is Alhaji Atiku Abubakar , a prominent citizen of the zone from Adamawa State who is the standard bearer of the PDP in the coming election, however warned that “I shall sit back and continue encouraging my party do the right thing . But if we don’t , I still reserve the capacity to ask my people to go our separate ways and do what must be done for good governance to reign in Nigeria.

He had earlier in the speech in  setting the grounds for the direction the North Eastern part of the country may take in the coming 2019 general elections by opening  the old wounds between the zone and the North west saying ” at my age , I have no reason to lie being a socialist progressive over the years as against capitalist conservatives that dominate the other zone .

According to him, the geographical zone  called North East today was on the same page with the progressives politics played by the late Aminu Kano of NEPU, Obafemi Awolowo of the defunct Action Group ( AG) and Nnamdi Azikwe of the defunct NCNC as against capitalistic and conservative ideology of the Northern Peoples Congress ( NPC) led by the late Sir  Ahnadu Bello and  seen as aggressive and ruthless to North Eastern and middle belt people generally.

He added that his book ‘ Poorlitics’ co authored by Mr Sam Agha Egwu aimed at discouraging money politics in the polity and promoting people centred politics as he did in Yobe State where he contested for governorship position  in 1991 with just N20,000.00 in Bank account and yet with massive support of the people, defeated the money bags and their godfathers .