Yar’Adua: North divided over possible successor – Vanguard
December 9, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
Amid growing concern and uncertainty over President Umar Yar’ Adua’s health, there are indications that the North is divided over a possible successor in 2011 just as the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, governors, particularly those of Northern extraction insist that the President’s successor must come from their fold.
The governors’ position which appears to have shifted attention from Yar’ Adua’s health came to light even as the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the ruling party meets in Abuja tomorrow over the President.
Vanguard gathered authoritatively that moves by a section of the North to position the Kwara State Governor, Mr. Bukola Saraki, to run in the 2011 presidential ticket should President Yar’Adua drop out of the race, was opposed by the core-North which preferred a candidate from its zone.
