STRATEGY sessions on how to plot an effective game-changer in the north’s quest to ensure that the region produces the nation’s next President in 2011 has now shifted to Saudi Arabia, authoritative sources have disclosed.

Some serving and former governors, ex-ministers, retired federal bureaucrats and a few others have scheduled their strategy meetings to take place during Umra, the lesser hajj so that they can ensure a change in the direction of Arewa’s opinion on the 2011 presidency by the end of Ramadan.

According to sources in Kaduna and Abuja, the meetings will definitely take place "before the last 10 days of Umra as things are expected to be hectic by then."

One of the meeting rooms at the plush Makkah Hilton Hotel, close to the Holy Haram mosque and the Kaaba, in the heart of Mecca, is the likely venue of the meeting.

There are indications that their plans may threaten the ambitions of the known presidential aspirants from the north as the meeting is believed to be aimed at considering other options, including the likely nomination of a serving governor or any other acceptable politician from the north to be supported as Arewa consensus presidential candidate.

Already, General Ibrahim Babangida, whose supporters, effective mobilization at the last Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF)’s recent NEC meeting in Kaduna led to the body’s decision to back the People Democracy Party’s position on zoning, have high hopes of securing Arewa endorsement of Babangida as a consensus candidate.

"The resolution compromised ACF’s position on partisan issues; ACF chairman, General IBM Haruna awas not part of it and chairman of ACF’s Board of Trustees, General Jerry Useni, too was not inclined that way but their deputies and others prevailed in ensuring ACF’s endorsement for the zoning idea.

"Saraki has not been too fit these days and the Babangida people could not make use of the Northern Union to project their agenda optimally. They had to use some other pan-Arewa platforms while their associates in the south work on strategies for winning support in southern states.

"However, after adopting the PDP’s position, it will be interesting to see if ACF can call members of the Buhari group that now logically feels suspicious about some people’s susceptibility to manipulations from the Babangida camp," one of the sources said.

Former Bauchi State governor, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, Gombe State governor, Alhaji Danjuma Goje, Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State and his Kano State counterpart, Ahmed Shekarau, along with former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, are believed to be among those expected to participate in the meeting’s effort to find a new direction and a nationally acceptable candidate.

"The strategy session may not make definite conclusions as such but the primary objective is to find meeting grounds on how to move the north and the entire nation forward by returning as a power bloc to really influence the direction of who gets the Arewa nod for 2011 presidency," the source stated.



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eh, if it's not one thing, its another.

na today?

politicians meet in shrines, churches, mosques, wherever.

moving on.

unless na boko haram dem dey plan, na them sabi.

Wise move by the north, better than getting prophets to prophesy poo.

Please i have two setter underground place to hold meetings in Iraq close to al-qeeda mountain and i have one close to isreal/palestinian bother is just at the middle of dis two country bother maximum security guarantee.
you can imagine people dieng here and there of cholera this people are holding meeting in Saudi in one of the most expensive hotel
GOD
JESUS
ALLAH
SONPONA
MAY AMADIOHA
SANGO
OGUN
OYA
AND ANY OTHER SPIRIT STRIKE YOU DEAD AS YOU ARE PUNISHING THE MASSES

'We humans keep brainstorming options and plans, but God's purpose prevails'.

I didnt say that. Its in The BOOK. Proverbs 19:21 (The Mesage)

When they are supposed to go to saudi for something meaningful,they went there to perfect their evil plans.may God strike them all.useless feofle.

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When they are supposed to go to saudi for something meaningful,they went there to perfect their evil plans.may God strike them all.useless feofle.

the prophet (s.a.w) is reported to have said umrah serves as an expiation for sins committed between that umrah and the previous one. So it is meant for spiritual upliftment of ones being. So sad ''if'' our politicians see it as another avenue to hatch another plan to give power to whom they wish even if the person in question is undeserving of it.
If they dont revere the sacred city of macca only God knows what else they have respect for.

pdp doesnt have any tangible ethics.

kool

God dey sha.

ACF will either endorse Bbangida or someone that can be as callous and cold and inflict pain and suffering on Southern interests. The surge in Southern chatter is making them unsettled. They see more frequent opposition and challenge to their proposals for North, so they will put some in there that they know can care less what South say or how they feel as long as the needs of the North is met. Also, they have more daring programs coming up, Sharia and Islamic banking is not all. . . . expect to see Hausa becoming the official language in the North and probably seconded by Arabic or English.