By Martins Oloja
There is no need discerning the
president’s body language about 2019 presidential election declaration anymore.
Did you read his leaps, or hip lips? The taciturn Muhammadu the soldier
and Buhari the politician will surely run – as long as his health remains
stable as it is at the moment. The Mission to Kano , his stronghold,
last week was a loud dress rehearsal. And the people of the ancient town have
signalled to the only politician they can trust to take the plunge again. He
has been told (in Kano )
that even ten Wazirin Adamawas can’t remove any steam from the political
support that the epitome of loyalty called Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje can
guarantee for him in 2019.
Ganduje is indeed a politician in whom there is no guile. Buhari
can always trust him to deliver more than two million votes in 2019. What is
more, we may have been carried away by some infantile sentimentality in the
southern zone that some extreme hunger and pervasive poverty in the land now
can erode the Buhari’s once solid base in the core north. Some boisterous
social media analysts may have told us that no one wants to hear about Sai Baba slogan again because of anger
nurtured by hunger in the north. This may not be true, after all.
*President Buhari in Kano. Right is Gov Ganduje |