2023: Terror Tag Could Stop Pantami From Aso Rock

The allegations of allegiance to Islamic terrorism which have enveloped the minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami may soon be over given the way crises in Nigeria are easily swept under the carpet.

Few would forget the case of the chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Umar Aliyu whose public misconduct in fighting in the public has disappeared from public discourse.

While the allegation of Pantami belonging to or supporting terrorism may subside in the days to come, it is, however, becoming apparent that the allegation may have consumed the permutations that were putting him as a possible running mate to the All Progressives Congress, APC running mate in 2023.

Just as Christians had put hope in a pastor in the person of Yemi Osinbajo as a counter to whatever religious bias was imagined against Muhammadu Buhari in 2015,  GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that a tendency in the Muslim North was also considering Pantami as a possible counter as a vice-president pick for a Christian APC presidential candidate from the South.

Pantami was until now widely seen in the North as a young, intelligent and well versed Islamic teacher who could represent the interest of the Muslim North with a Christian as president.

The permutations on him were also reflective of geopolitical and electoral considerations. He is from Bauchi State, in the Northeast which has been crying of marginalization, having not had presidential power since Tafawa Balewa.

Even more, he is also from the vote rich Bauchi State which is controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The permutation among some was that the nomination of Pantami as presidential running mate would help to swing the votes in Bauchi against a possible second term for Governor Bala Mohammed of the PDP.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG recalls that when Pantami had his faceoff with Abike Dabiri over office space in 2020 that the issue turned emotional for some youths in the Muslim North.

As Zayyad Muhammad wrote in Thisday just after the faceoff,

“Dr. Pantami is a young man but a highly revered Islamic scholar who has the ears of the President, and to many enthusiasts of the politics of 2023 presidential elections– Pantami is a strong potential vice -presidential candidate from the north.”

Dr. Pantami was at the weekend working to distance himself from the portrayals made of him albeit in the hope of sustaining his political relevance in the polity.

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