The newspapers for Monday, November 28, focus on an alleged plot by
President Buhari to replace Osinbajo with Kalu and the aftermath of Akeredolu’s
election victory in Ondo.
The Point newspaper reports that the camp of
President Muhammadu Buhari may be planning to replace vice president Yemi
Osinbajo with a politician from the southeast ahead of the 2019 elections.
The paper reports that the presidency plans
to woo a former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu, as a possible
replacement for Osinbajo in the next general elections so as to pacify the
southeast.
According to The point Newspaper, the Buhari camp, sensing a potential loss of
support and electoral votes from the south west, in the event of the Tinubu forces
pulling out, is tinkering with options to win over the south east and perhaps
south south blocs.
“With many gladiators, who joined
forces to see APC through to victory during the last elections already fingered
in the movement to form a new mega party, there is intense calculation being
done to get a crowd-puller from the South East geo-political zone. This is to
garner substantial votes from the region to shore up what may be lost should
the South West go with Tinubu,” one of
the sources said.
Meanwhile, following the win of the candidate of the APC, Rotimi
Akeredolu, in the Ondo state governorship poll, the candidates of the PDP, AD,
and SDP have neither conceded defeat nor congratulated him.
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