There was Tension in the Villa as Buhari threatens to dump 2nd term bid on health grounds rather than been disgraced.
A high powered tension pervaded the Aso Rock Villa few hours after the decampment of senators and some members of the house of Representative contrary to the façade sold to Nigerians about the President wishing the decamped members well in their sojourn to a new party.
Some Sources in the villa confirmed that the President Mohammadu Buhari was so miffed with the shift by several Senators and members of the house pf representatives and threats of several others that he almost dropped the idea of a 2nd term pursuit by telling Nigerians he is opting out as a result of his health and age.
Further investigations confirmed that the president and his wife had both agreed to toe that line of honor having realized the dismal decline in his popularity base and the possibility of a defeat staring him in the face if he goes ahead with the gamble of 2019.
According to some of our sources, the President was totally disorganized and pissed with the strange decampment in spite of the overwhelming assurances given by the National Chairman and APC top hierarchy that the situation was under control and the fervent assurance of his Political Caucus and Cabal in the seat of Power here in Abuja. What was said to have pained him most was that Sen. Kwankwaso visited him a night before and gave him assurance of his loyalty, while he personally made efforts to get across Senate President Saraki and assured him of his readiness to work with him. As a result, President Buhari is of the opinion that those surrounding him are not telling him the exact position of things, as they're lying to him to make him feel happy, while the APC ship is sinking. He's confused about who to trust again.
It took the suave intelligence and unrivaled Pressure of members of the Cabal, like Babagana Kingibe (Head of the Buhari Political Caucus) and several others in the seat of Power to stop the President from towing the line of honor like Mandala by opting out of the 2019 elections following the tsunami that saw Senators and Res members vacating the APC for the PDP.
The President was said to have mellowed down after several hours of assurances, plea and convincing by his close associates that the move by the Reps members and senators does not affect his Political base as the masses were still solidly behind him and that they too would prove it in the days ahead with tenable evidences among the populace of Nigeria.
Confidential report reaching our end confirmed that the plot by Buhari to drop his 2nd term bid received overwhelming support of the wife who was said to have totally supported the idea, but was shocked on the recanting of her husband following unrivaled and uncommon pressure mounted on the President by the Cabal and other very close associates who were able to convince him against that line of action by creating a picture of Political invisibility which gave the almost demoralized President some form of invigoration again.
As it stands now, the idea of President Buhari backing out from contesting for Second tenure is not completely ruled out as he is likely to toe that line if some governors and more legislators jump ship. Our source confirmed that he sees this as a vote of no confidence on his government. The cabals controlling him has assured him that most of the decamped members will come back and that the planned decamping of the governors and more legislators will not happen.
Our source equally revealed about plot to use EFCC, the security agencies etc to threaten and blackmail the decamped legislators and those who intended to decamp into submission, if the carrot they want to dangle before them fails to do the magic.
There are intensive pressure being mounted on the legislators as I write.
These few days to the election primaries promise to be interesting times.
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