The governor said this in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka. Fayose said, “The people of northern Nigeria will choose their own candidate in 2019 when it will be the turn of the region to produce the President.”
He described the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (rtd.) as a stooge of a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
While calling on northerners to vote massively for President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) next month, Fayose argued that since the Southwest had ruled for eight years, the South-South should be allowed to continue. He stressed that four years were not too much for the North to wait for the return of the presidency to the region.
In his words, “By 2019, the presidency will go to the North, and it will be the choice of the leaders and stakeholders in the region to choose whoever they want among the arrays of patriotic Nigerians that abound in the region.”
“As it is today, Buhari that is going about presenting himself as representing the North is just a mere stooge of Tinubu, and I am sure Northern leaders will not want Tinubu to use their slot by proxy.”
“That Buhari is not the candidate of the leaders of the Northern Nigeria was made manifest during the APC presidential primaries, when Northern delegates gave their votes to Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, with Buhari getting his own delegate votes from South-West, South-South, South-East and part of North-Central.”
“The North-West delegates voted for Kwankwaso while those from the North-East voted for Atiku, meaning that Buhari was imposed on the North as their candidate by delegates controlled by Tinubu and it was in appreciation of this that Buhari gave Tinubu the sole responsibility of picking his (Buhari) running mate, a ticket Tinubu tried to give to himself but failed and ultimately conceded to Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Tinubu’s surrogate.”
Fayose further said that the unity and stability of the country should be paramount and no Nigerian must be made to feel inferior to others as a result of tribal or religious inclinations.
He said by 2019, after President Jonathan must have completed his tenure, should he win the February presidential election, it would naturally be the turn of the North to produce the President.
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