By Sufuyan Ojeifo
In 2015, serial presidential contestant, Muhammadu Buhari, emerged
victorious through the instrumentality of enclave politics to which the north
adroitly resorted in the face of plans by Goodluck Jonathan to ensconce himself
in power for another four years. Had Jonathan succeeded, the north, barring any
unforeseen circumstances, would have been out of presidential power for ten
unbroken years following the demise of President Umaru Yar’Adua.
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That cold fact apparently nudged the north to throw everything into
the mix of 2015 presidential power politics. Many key northern elements in the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) deployed political brinkmanship, dismantled
loyalty that characteristically underpins leadership-followership construction,
betrayed trust and deceived Jonathan in the utilisation of campaign and
election funds in order to ensure the defeat of a sitting president, for the
first time, in the annals of Nigeria’s presidential election.
