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One of the “New Breed” Presidential aspirants, Ahmed Buhari, has provided insight into the failure of young presidential aspirants to come together, blaming it on ego among them.
Buhari who hails from Niger State, said other aspirants failed to understand the present political realities as they deliberately jettisoned the North where the big parties have zoned their ticket.
Buhari who is the Presidential Candidate of the Sustainable National Party of Nigeria, (SNP) told our correspondent it appeared the young candidates had planned to fail.
Daily Trust Youth reports that the 2019 electioneering propped many relatively young candidates who are within the age bracket of 40-60.
Following the high volume of aspirants, there were moves to form an alliance which would produce a consensus candidate that would represent the youth in the election leading to the formation of Presidential Aspirants Coming Together (PACT).
However, the PACT arrangement did not produce much result as only few of the aspirants respected the PACT’s outcome which produced Fela Durotoye, as the candidate as other aspirants went their separate ways and emerged Presidential candidates of other little known parties.
Prof. Wole Soyinka, penultimate Friday met the young candidates last week in Lagos to explore the possibility of alliance but many of the candidates did not attend the meeting.
Buhari noted that he personally discussed a Buhari/Moghalu ticket with the Presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Prof. Kingsley Moghalu but the latter rebuffed the suggestion.
The CEO of Skylar Inc., an ICT firm based in Lagos, said most of the aspirants did not consider the reality that a northerner would emerge as the next President in line with the informal zoning arrangement.
He said, “Unfortunately, many people will still disagree with my political calculations but those who have been on the field can clearly see that the expectations of the electorate is to have a northern president for 2019. Very importantly, we must understand that the electorate must always be included in our political calculations,” he explained.
He said all the southern contestants picked a northerner as a running mate. “I still commend Kingsley Moghalu, despite his lack of political understanding he responded to my call for a meeting between both of us,” he noted.
He said it is now crystal-clear that the New Breed candidates have failed to forge a formidable front with defeat staring them all in the face.
“After all said and done, we still need to salvage our Nigeria and without over flogging our unfortunate mistakes and the imminent losses, I will go a step further by making sure our policy document gets adopted by whoever wins the 2019 Presidential Election,” Buhari added.
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