LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Baring any last minutes change of plans, the Speaker, House of Representatives Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal will contest the 2015 Presidential elections under the banner of the All Progressive Congress, APC, an informed source told Pointblanknews.com.
Sources told Pointblanknews.com that Tambuwal has been secretly meeting with top Politicians from the North and has set up the Tambuwal Presidential Project, TPP.
TPP’s membership is drawn from top Politicians in the North, members of the National Assembly as well as APC chieftains who are not disposed to General Mohammadu Buhari’s presidential ambition.
Tambuwal, regarded as the “new face of Northern politics” is seen as the most acceptable among Northern politicians who desperately yearn for power to return to the North in 2015. The Speaker’s Governor, Aliyu Wammako of Sokoto State recently decamped to the APC. But the Speaker cannot leave the PDP now, as he would forfeit his seat in the National Assembly under the new electoral law.
Tambuwal’s choice as a presidential material according to inside sources is to represent the much call for the return of Power to the North in 2015.
Sources in the North who are following the emerging politics are of the opinion that Hon. Tambuwal, coming from Sokoto State; a key north western state of the country would be in better position to slug it out with
President Goodluck Jonathan in the event that the President emerged the PDP presidential candidate.
Already top echelons of the APC who are not particularly comfortable with Gen. Muhammadu Buhari running for the Presidency on the party’s platform are currently said to be holding clandestine meetings to convince the
Speaker to join the Party and contest the Presidential ticket of the party. The Speaker, although has not acceded to the overtures but his close associates said his body language is encouraging.
“The Speaker is a politician and so he has to calculate well before deciding. He has not said yes to the request but from his body language, we know he is not opposed to it,” a source who has been part of the
political calculation told Pointbalnknews.com.
Some APC chieftains are also said to have commence mounting pressure on Gen. Buhari, urging him to drop any idea of contesting the 2015 Presidential
An APC member of the House of Representatives who pleaded anonymity said majority of the members of the House are in support of Tambuwal’s presidential ambition and are already working round the clock to sell the idea to other Nigerians
“We have gone far with the Tambuwal Presidential Project (TPP) we have reached virtually all nooks and cranny of this country to seek support of major stake holders within and outside the APC, we are very comfortable
with the response we have received so far. Nigeria and Nigerians would get a better deal if and when we translate the TPP into reality In-Sha-Allah
“Nigerians must also recall that that the emergence of Tambuwal as Speaker of the House of Representatives was not the making of the PDP, rather, we the now APC made it happen and ever since, the Speaker is carrying
everybody along irrespective of ethnicity, tribe or religion some rare quality a good leader must possess, the Federal Lawmaker who hails from the north revealed.
Source: Point Blanknews