Popular Critic, Farooq Kperogi has alleged that Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki manipulated Northern Elders to endorse him and Bala Mohammed as consensus northern candidates of the party in the upcoming 2023 party presidential primaries.
Kperogi, in a series of tweets on Sunday, lambasted Saraki as being ‘deceitful’ and ‘selfish’.
“Saraki’s 419 Northern PDP “Consensus” Candidacy. Bukola Saraki manipulated “northern elders” led by Professor Ango Abdullahi to simultaneously endorse him AND Bauchi State governor Bala Mohammed as the North’s “consensus candidates” for PDP’s presidential primaries.”
“But by what woolly arithmetic logic do two distinct people emerge as the “consensus candidates” of one region? Well, Abdullahi reportedly said Saraki and Mohammed were “required to make further concessions so that in the end, one of them would be presented as the consensus candidate.” 😂How?”
“Of course, other PDP candidates have dismissed the “northern consensus” exercise as an immature political flimflam. The clearest indication that the consensus circus was perpetrated by Saraki (with Bala Mohammed as one of the supporting cast) emerged from what Ango Abdullahi said about the “third phase” in the “zonal assessment” of the PDP candidates from the North. He said the North-Central has not had an opportunity to present a candidate for election in the PDP since 1999 but stopped short of saying Saraki should therefore be the region’s consensus candidate.”
“It’s true, of course, that the North-Central hasn’t produced a president since 1999. It’s also valid to make the case that in the interest of representational justice in the North, the Northcentral should be favored to produce PDP’s candidate. (For the record, my own personal preference, about which I’ve already written, is for the next president to come from the South-east, which has also not produced a president since 1999, in the interest of national unity).”
