Gen Buhari as the right presidential candidate for the APC Gen Buhari is the best candidate to soundly and squarely beat the PDP in 2015. The strongest political asset of the APC is Gen Buhari’s political value and support base which spans across the length and breadth of Nigeria. At the last presidential elections in 2011. Gen Buhari as the CPC flag bearer beat the PDP in 12 of the 19 states in the North (that is 2 of the 3 political zones in the north). In the elections, Gen Buhari scored a total of 11,914,953 votes fair and square while President Jonathan scored 22,350,242 votes. In the 2003 presidential elections which Gen Buhari contested under the ANPP, he scored a total of 12, 216, 171 (32.82% of the votes cast) votes to PDP’s 22, 809, 446 (61.27%). And remember that none of these voters who voted for Buhari received even a dime for his/ her votes while almost all of the PDP votes were either bought or rigged. Gen Buhari defeated President Jonathan in Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Borno, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara. So Buhari’s electoral value makes it easy to beat the PDP in 2015 because these votes and even more are there ready for him if he contests in 2015. The political arithmetic clearly points to victory for the APC in 2015 if it presents Gen Buhari as its candidate. The calculation is very clear: Buhari will deliver at least 15 states in the North (3 more from the 12 he won in 2011), the ACN will deliver 7 states in the south west and Edo which will give the APC 22 states in total. Apart from defeating the PDP in 22 states for sure, the APC will certainly gain 25% in few other states. The PDP can only claim votes in the south south and south east geopolitical zones. That means Buhari will deliver 2 and a half geopolitical zones, the North West and the North East and part of the North central. The ACN will deliver the south west and add up with Edo state. With Buhari as its candidate, the APC will garner the required 25% of the votes cast in at least 2 third (24 states) of all the states of the Nigeria including the federal capital territory Abuja to win the presidency. Section 134 (1) (b) of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria was clear on this requirement and states that ‘A candidate for the office of the President shall be deemed to have been duly elected, where, there being only two candidates for the election, has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the states in the federation and the federal capital territory, Abuja. Gen Buhari’s political value transcends that of any politician today in Nigeria. He is one man terminator squad that has stood against the PDP for 14 years. Many politicians who claim to be leaders of the APC today have collected either cash or contracts or both from the PDP but not Gen Buhari. After the 2003 elections which Gen Buhari is widely believed to have won, former president Obasanjo had sent a delegation to Gen Buhari to persuade him to forward names of ministerial nominees but Gen Buhari told them that he is not in politics to make money or for appointments. The APC has to bear in mind that money cannot defeat the PDP in 2015. The PDP has access to the nation’s treasury and can out money anybody. What can beat the PDP is a candidate who can get the votes without having to pay for them. That candidate is Gen Buhari. Gen Buhari will institute discipline in the Nigerian system because Nigeria needs a paradigm shift. This man will institute the rule of law and make everyone alive to our responsibilities and we all know that the level of corruption without borders going on in Nigeria today under President Jonathan is because there is no deterrent. There is no leader to provide an example for everyone to follow. People turn to corruption because there is no price to pay and even the leaders at the very top are also corrupt. Up BABA
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 05:08:19 +0000
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