Northern Leaders Lobby Jonathan For 2019

POLITICAL leaders of the North were said to have reached out to President Goodluck Jonathan in a bid to secure assurances that their preferred candidate would be supported to succeed the president in 2019.

In a move seen as a follow-up to the pact said to have been reached with the northern leaders’ strategic committee comprising mainly Northern leaders, the Northern elders led by elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, had visited the Presidential Villa, Abuja last week for further talks and to cement the deal.

Though the group met with Vice-President Namadi Sambo, sources confirmed that the key message conveyed through the vice-president to Jonathan was the need for assurances that power would revert to the North in 2019.

Sources confirmed that Jonathan had given indications that the North would take power in 2019 after his second term in office during the week-long discussions that yielded the pact produced by the strategic committee.

But it was learnt that the elders came specifically last week to get words from the Villa that the North-West would be backed for the Presidency in 2019.

It was learnt that the Northern elders had wanted to secure the assurances so as to be in the best position to define their messages to strategic elders and leaders of the Northern region.

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