VOTING PDP GOVERNMENT AGAIN FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WOULD SEND THE NATION TO EARLY GRAVE. A consensus candidate may finally be agreed upon by the inner caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the North, following a crucial meeting held to pick a candidate among former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Kano’s Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso. It was gathered during APC northern regional meeting that the North, to which the national APC had zoned the Presidency, would try to dissuade the three aspirants from going for a primary election, to avoid disaffection. According to sources from the meeting, the consensus arrangement if succeeded would reduce the political tension and defection of supporters to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after the primaries. However, speaking during the APC northern stakeholders meeting yesterday, Buhari said he tried to be president three times but failed owing to “high level rigging by PDP led government.” Buhari, who also spoke on behalf of ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, alleged that there were reports to show that Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC‘s equipment used to produce permanent voters cards were illegally seen in some states producing voters card ahead of 2015 polls. Buhari alerted Nigerians that voting PDP government again for the next four years would send the nation to early grave, averring that the PDP has introduced dollars and naira politics in the country. “Voting PDP government for the next four years will send this country to the grave. 2015 will be another year of concern to this country. Now, we try to make sure that INEC is fully prepared for 2015 elections.PDP government is serving themselves not us. Nigerians” In his goodwill message at the meeting, Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, called on the north to irrespective of their religion and ethnicity, to summon courage and come together, to salvage the country ahead of 2015. According to the governor, the north in the best of times was the least in all indices of economic development, let alone now that insurgency is ravaging some parts of the north, saying, “We are now the poorest of the earth. Poverty has no religion, it has no ethnicity; therefore, we must reach out to other parts of the country, so that by 2015, other Nigerians can join forces with us to salvage the country.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 07:24:16 +0000