I fully understand and Nigerians should fully understand that the naive belief in the North that their salvation or interest is better served by the PDP and not any opposition party in Nigeria, is a narrow-minded view.
For too long the North has gotten used to pitching their tent with the ruling party in Nigeria that they no longer understand what it means to lose an election or what it means to be in the opposition. Nigerian voters have a duty to serve them notice in 2011 that they are not only selling Nigeria short, they defeating the purpose of Democracy and denying Nigeria of the full benefits or dividends of Democracy by that kind of foolish mindset.
I have just read on the internet that some powerful northerners who do not welcome the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as their consensus candidate are ganging up to find another consensus candidate from another zone of the PDP in the North. The whole notion of a consensus candidate from the North is very silly in a highly diversified country like Nigeria. What if the South decides to replicate what the northerners have done. That would mean setting the North up against the South in a country where the South alone currently lays the golden egg that has financially sustained Nigeria for much of her 50 years as a sovereign state.
I am talking of crude oil from which no less than 98% of Nigerian revenues come from. Nigeria before and after independence used to be sustained mainly by agricultural produce like cocoa, timber, palm oil, fishing in the South and cotton, cattle, leather works and tanning, and groundnut pyramids in the North. It is only in the food basket of Nigeria around Zaki Ibiam in the old Benue Plateau that agriculture still counts for something in Nigeria. Nigerians no longer patronize farming as a major occupation. The main occupation of Nigerians today is partisan politics and the hooliganism that go with it.
Nigerian business men and money bags are busy running around looking for allocation of oil blocks and subsidizing it with illegal bunkering all at the expense of the Nigerian Commonwealth. The region where the oil comes from is totally neglected and impoverished and that is why groups like MEND are now fighting back. Nigeria is a bundle of contradiction where the North is feeding fat on revenues coming from oil while they are talking of running a consensus candidate to run out of town the first minority man from the oil-producing area to ever become President? Can you believe that?
The Belief In The North That Their Salvation Lies With The PDP Alone Is Anti- Democratic & Unwise (http://www.saharareporters.com/article/belief-north-their-salvation-lies-pdp-alone-anti-democratic-unwise)