A nascent group, the Northern Democratic Alliance (NDA) has alleged the discovery of a plan by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to destabilise Nigeria’s Northern region.
Convener of NDA, Hamisu Gombe; and Secretary, Josiah Pam, said in a statement in Kaduna on Sunday that the plan is to weaken the North socially, politically and economically to make it unable to challenge him in 2027.
The group warned leaders of the region against complacency, urging them to wake up to the new reality confronting them.
It noted that Tinubu, fully aware of his growing unpopularity in Nigeria, especially in the North, is aiming to snatch key States in the region and he has started.
According to the statement: “We are using this medium to call on well meaning leaders in the North, secular and religious, to brace up for what is coming to our land. Certain leaders have been marked down. Among them are Nasir el-Rufai, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Atiku Abubakar, Danjuma Goje and Sani Yerima.
“We are also calling on them to close ranks in the interest of our people, so as not to be caught off guard,” the statement reads.
NDA stated that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was doing all it can to snatch key States of Zamfara, Kano and Plateau from the opposition and install its stooges into office to ensure that the party wins the States by hook or crook.
Sounding a note of warning, the NDA urged leaders in the region not to see the development as mere politics or consigned to the judiciary, stating that the leaders must unite and stop President Tinubu’s imperial and dictatorship tendency.
It stated that the consequences of allowing the trend to continue would further cause untold problems for the North, which is on the reeling under the yoke of armed banditry and Boko Haram.
