2019: Will it be Atiku or Dangote?

Political machines are getting oiled and lubricated. Events are unfolding by the day without delay and clarity as the game and its players are making heavy body movements.
Welcome to 2019, the age of big business. And the age of billionaire politicians; a defining moment and a decider-era for over 170 million black people on the surface of earth.
Welcome, once again to a year without which we are nobody. The year, Waziri Adamawa, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former vice president and most likely, Alhaji Dangote, Africa’s richest business man will be slugging it out in the field of play.
Yes, Dangote; you heard me right. Be not deceived, Dangote may be on his way to contesting for presidency, barring last minute moves by the powers that be as political parties are stopping at nothing in making a big claim come 2019.
He is, of course, one of a kind and one of the most credible and unbeatable elements any political party could field as a presidential material for obvious reasons.
One, for his financial war-chest which undoubtedly, is his strongest selling point; the richest tag on his name is a brand on its own and a trade mark, generally. It threatens his-would-be opposition and then, sends jitters in the spines of his traducers.
Two, he is a business man, with no overt political interest or record of participation in same. That on its own has kept his name on a cleaner slate than his peers, as no dent is traceable to him whatsoever. Three, he is a man of great ideas with unequal entrepreneurial capacity, which has given him a wide range of high network of friends across the world. So, his candidacy is an easy sale.
And for Atiku, politics is a lifestyle and presidential dream. Atiku is a major contender in the business of 2019 as he has hidden nothing, and obviously, spared nothing in leaving everyone with the message he is in the race for reasons.
With a strong political background and experiences acquired over his hey-days as a vice president and then, political lessons learnt over the years he spent in active party politics, Atiku’s ambition cannot be said to be a tea party.
His restructuring campaign, which has made him more popular than every other politician from the north, is an added advantage, just as his financial strength is to say the least, superlative. Just as the zoning of the presidential position to the north by the two major political parties, APC and the PDP is said to favour both Atiku and Dangote.
It is therefore, on this premise, Nigeria’s next elections embody a big poser – “2019: Atiku or Dangote?” A question only time will answer.

Gwiyi Solomon,
Enugu

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