At Last, Buhari Picks A Successor

<h4>At Last&comma; Buhari Picks A Successor<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>OpenLife Nigeria reports that President Muhammadu Buhari&comma; who is billed to quit office in 15-month time&comma; has settled for a list&comma; made up of three names&comma; wherein one would be finally picked as his successor and this is authoritative&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Highly credible source who confided in OpenLife Magazine early Friday said the decision was taken in his lastest foreign trip to Addis Ababa&comma; Ethiopia&comma; for the 35th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Africa Union Heads of State and Government&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Ethiopia meeting was the needed opportunity for Buhari to congregate his inner caucus who&comma; according to OpenLife source&comma; flew into Addis Ababa from different locations and time to ward off any suspicion tha may arise from close aides&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The source further affirmed that foreign interests were well represented and presented &&num;8220&semi;Because International community acceptance of Buhari&&num;8217&semi;s choice is very key&&num;8221&semi;&comma; he stated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Continuing&comma; the source said &&num;8220&semi;Former President Good luck Ebele Jonathan&comma; Adams Oshiomhole and Ogbonnaya Onu&comma; current Minister of Sciences and Technology were finally picked and Baba was told to set aside political grievance and have a meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo&comma; Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar and get their buy-in to minimize rancour as count down begins&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the source added that  Buhari has accepted to meet his military colleagues  but &&num;8220&semi;Obasanjo may be a hard nut to crack and his acceptance is very important because he is better placed to organize the international leaders for the process to be smooth&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;