Northern Consensus ticket: How the losers will react

After more than two months of consultations political sensitivities are again high as the 17 Man committee of Northern elders get set to announce its choice candidate to confront President Goodluck Jonathan for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket.
It is an unprecedented effort in the quest for power for Nigeria’s northern political class which until recently was believed to be invisible in the political power game.
Indeed, it was the conviction of the Southern political class that political power would be unattainable for the region that motivated the crave for the enactment of zoning in the country’s constitution prior to 1999.
Where that and the call for devolution of power among the country’s geopolitical regions through the appointment of six geopolitical Vice_Presidents failed, the south was able to win an agreement for zoning in the PDP at the formation of the party in 1998.
It was undoubtedly based on that that the party conceded the presidency to the South in its 1999 presidential primaries.
The stubborn effort of the late Alhaji Abubakar Rimi in upturning the agreement during the Jos convention was remarkably unsuccessful.

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