National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu Arewa youth group: Ex-head of state may not serve out tenure The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, has counselled against electing Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as president, stating that Nigeria will return to a combative presidency if Buhari becomes the next president. In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Tony Amadi, the national chairman of PDP said what Nigeria and Nigerians need at the moment is a president that would further consolidate the dividends of democracy and use dialogue to heal the wounds of the nation. According to Mu’azu, “There are many reasons why Nigeria must not return to a quasi-military dictatorship led by a war lord whose democratic credential are suspect. “It is also important to know that the power of the president is awesome and if you give it to a man who is not coolheaded leader like President Goodluck Jonathan, he will certainly throw the country into chaos at any time.” Mu’azu, who extolled the qualities of President Jonathan, said the president “is a tested and trusted democrat who is well experienced in running democratically elected governments having been elected as a deputy governor, governor, vice president and now President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “Buhari is the product of military dictatorship that cannot operate in a free country,” stating that “he (Buhari) is unlike President Jonathan who at all times favours dialogue and persuasion which are the hallmark of democratic governance.” The PDP leader continued: “We don’t want a combative presidency which would be busy witch-hunting perceived enemies for trumped charges, then jail them for 200 years. If you read his acceptance speech you will note the language employed show what direction his government will focus. “The choice before Nigerians in 2015 is quite clear. Do you want a transforming leadership or a retrogressive return to a quasi-military dictatorship clad in democratic toga or do you want an environment of human right abuses where people would live in fear, yet it is supposed to be democratic setting? “All the gains of the past years will be lost when autocratic regime that Buhari is known for takes over power in Nigeria,” explaining that this is the choice Nigerians will have to make in the 2015 presidential election. Mu’azu who advised Nigerians to be careful before casting their votes said: “What is needed is a giant leap into democratic governance and not the return of the ‘jackboot’ era of military in politics of the ‘kill and go’ of the past. “A President Jonathan re-election is what Nigeria and Nigerians need at this moment. We need a progressive and persuasive government that would use dialogue to heal the wounds of the nation. Nigeria and Nigerians have passed the era of jackboot politics which belongs to the past. “Every nation needs leaders who would make the needed and necessary sacrifice and this is what the re-election of President Jonathan represents. All over the world, leaders with qualities of President Jonathan are being elected and not a drawback from democratic governance which the APC represent.” Meanwhile, a socio-political group, the Arewa Youth Integrity Forum, has raised the alarm that a cabal within the All Progressives Congress (APC) has hatched a plan to short change the North for another eight years by planting General Muhammadu Buhari who is already running out of age and weak to coordinate the affairs of the nation. The group alleged that Pastor Yemi Osibajo who is much younger, active and belongs to the cabal, is being strategically positioned to take over power thereby making it possible for power to return to the South again for another eight years. The national president of the group, Mallam Hamid Usman, in a media chat yesterday in Abuja, noted that the new plot was a fallout of series of meeting between a former president and some powerful forces in the APC and have already started playing it out by demonstrating their disdain for the North and its people. Usman insisted that it had become very obvious that those who abandoned the energetic and young aspirants like Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Sam Nda-Isaiah and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar are out to repeat the selection of an ailing president, like in 2007, knowing that age and health are very important in the discharge of national duties. According to Usman, Buhari has been surrounded by hawks and caged into a dungeon that nothing good will come back to the North in the next eight years owing to recent activities in the APC that manifested that the man cannot call the shots by himself if elected as president. “In the first place, they went for a candidate who claimed that he couldn’t afford his nomination form yet he is still their choice because he has no stamina of himself which is a better deal to finance him to power and easily push him out barely six months into the tenure which is worse than what happened to Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. “Our enemies are it again and we shall not fold our hands to watch these men dictate to Arewa what they think is good for us knowing full well that underneath is a poisonous wine for the brides family and cannot be rejected,” he said.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:43:39 +0000
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