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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