Ohanaeze’s endorsement of Atiku lacks substance – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the split within the Ohanaeze
Igbo socio-cultural group over its reported endorsement of Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP), did not surprise him.
He made the remark while speaking at a meeting with a select group of South-east leaders on Friday, at the State House, Abuja.
According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and
publicity, Garba Shehu, President Buhari said that the moment the
so-called resolution was announced; he got calls from well-meaning
leaders from the region asking him to disregard it as it was without any
substance.
He said “From that moment, I knew that the resolution would not stand, and alas, there it was.”
President Buhari said that his party, the All Progressives Congress, got
it right from the very beginning that the major problems facing the
country were mainly on security, corruption and the economy.
He said “We have done so much. Given the chance, we will do more. Given
every chance, we will tell Nigerians where we were in 2015 and what we
have achieved up to now.
“We will not get tired of speaking about the golden opportunity Nigeria
lost during 16 years of the PDP. We earned money, which we didn’t use,”
he said.
“The state of infrastructure we inherited was terrible – no roads, the
railway was killed and power. They lacked conscience because anybody
with conscience will not do what they did. We will report them to
Nigerians. Let anybody lead this country but not the PDP. They were so
reckless with the resources of the country,” the President said.
“If you ruin the economy, send your children abroad to get education,
won’t they come back?” he asked, adding: “I said it 30 years ago that
this is the only country we have. We must stay here and salvage it
together.”
The leaders of the delegation, Engineer Emeka Ekwuosa and the National
Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie,
informed President Buhari that the Igbos and South-easterners generally
understand the good things he is doing for Nigeria which they said, had
unfortunately been misunderstood.
They promised to mobilise support for him in the south-east, saying that his re-election will be a national consensus.
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