President Buhari says he was scared of contesting in
the 2015 presidential election after his failures in past elections. He said
this while addressing APC leaders during the breaking of the Ramadan fast at
the presidential villa yesterday July 14th
"No
matter the level you are, drop your influence so that we can help achieve the
manifesto – security, economy, employment and corruption- because if we don’t
kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria. We have to ensure that people we
bring forward are those that will move the society forward.
I always
like to go down the memory lane to show how lucky we are as a political group.
At no stage was the decision taken by chance, it was all deliberate. The
leaders of the parties felt the only way to wrest power from the PDP was for us
to come together. I, in particular, was scared after previous failures of the
elections of 2003, 2007 and 2011. We dissolved our various parties to form APC,
then we applied to INEC, for once I was grateful to INEC. We had gone with nine
people to INEC to apply and INEC advised us that we needed at least 25 people
to form a political party. We were able to go back and raised 35 members across
the country and then successfully registered the party. INEC then informed the
federal government that we have met the requirements hence we cannot be denied
registration. Many doubting Thomases said merger had never succeeded in Nigeria
but here we are. I went into this long explanation so that you will appreciate
how far we have come and for a society as ours, if we respect the constitution,
then all the greed and problems will be a thing of the fast.”he said
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