Immunity bill: new northern plot to impeach next Nigeria president?
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This led to a school of thought
propounding that the plan of the Yoruba politics master, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to
field Buhari who was from the north as president was because he was sick and
would have health challenges in office so much so that his vice, Yemi Osinbajo,
a Yoruba, would eventually become the president.
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Almost buttressing that school
was that Buhari turned out to be sickly indeed and he got so ill at a point in
time that he was away from the country for a minimum of ninety days.
But he still remains president,
his health challenges seem to be over and another school is claiming it’s not
the person who’s actually known as Muhammadu Buhari who’s the president
presently but an impersonator, his look-alike allegedly from Sudan and known as Jubril Al-Sudani.
This school was allegedly
propagated by one of the thorns in Nigeria’s flesh, Nnamadi Kanu, who’s the
leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that wants the Igbos who make
up the south-east of Nigeria to secede.
Allegations like those above will
always be a fact of life and one of the latest is that the deposed Emir of
Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, was actually dethroned as part of the grand plan of
the northern part of Nigeria to hold on to the presidency after Buhari’s two
terms of eight years ends in 2023.
Already, there’s a power tussle
over who will succeed him then. The southern part of the country believe it has
to be a southerner, and even among the southerners, there’s still a tussle on
as to if it’ll be a southerner who’s a Yoruba, Igbo or a Niger-Deltan.
Yet, it’s alleged that the north
don’t want the presidency to go to the south as they believe they’ll be
sidelined from the corridors of power as they’re allegedly doing now one of
them is the president.
Some spread the rumour that the north’s
plan was that either one of the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, or
former EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) chairman, Nuhu Ribadu,
would succeed Buhari.
Now the rumour is that the
dethroned Sanusi is preferred as the successor as it’s believed he has the
right appeal to both Nigerians and the international community hence his
dethronement so he can easily be packaged for president.
While all these rumours sound
like wild tales, they seem to have elements of truth in them, just like another
one being spread presently that the current bill in the senate to strip the
president, vice-president, governors and deputy governors of their immunity from criminal prosecution while in office is
actually a plot by the north to still hold on to power at all costs.
According to the rumour which is told
salaciously, this immunity removal is the backup plan to the Sanusi one and is
seen as even more feasible than that of Sanusi because it’ll be extremely
difficult, not impossible though, to make Sanusi emerge as the presidential
candidate of the current ruling party, APC (All Progressives Congress), for the
2023 elections when tons of southerners are scuffling over it.
The immunity removal bill is
therefore believed to be a masterpiece which will come into effect against the
next president who if is a southerner will be so prosecuted that he’ll be impeached
by the northern majority in the National Assembly so that his vice who should
be a northerner will then take over from him and so power remains in the north.
Is this a tall tale or not?
It sounds so, and at the same
time, it doesn’t.
Oh well, we can only wait to see
if time will prove it false or not.
In the meantime, watch out for
more updates on this here on Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog.
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