Buhari Warming Up To Declare For Presidential Race.

Former Head of State and top leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari has started putting finishing touches to a plan to formally declare his ambition to contest the 2015 Presidential election, if the high levels of consultations traced to the retired General are anything to go by.


Buharai has attempted the Presidential election in Nigeria thrice, starting from 2003 when he contested against former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the platform of All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP).
Buhari also contested in 2007 and in 2011 against the late President Umaru Yar Adua and President Goodluck Jonathan respectively but lost in the three elections.
He is widely believed to have the backing of most of the chieftains of APC, amid reports that the push by party’s leaders to sell his candidature, at all costs led to the exodus of key members who later joined the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

With the merger of the leading opposition parties that gave birth to APC, Buhari camp strongly believes that if he could get 11million votes when he ran under the platform of one of the parties that merged, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), then winning next year’s poll is may be a forgone conclusion.

Although no interested party in APC has declared interest in seeking the party’s ticket for the 2015 Presidential election, indications are rife that former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Honourable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and others are equally interested

Speaking with some journalists in Abuja yesterday, one of Buhari’s lieutenants who does not want his name in print for tactical reasons disclosed that as soon as the on-going consultations are over, the former military leader would throw his hat into the ring.

“General Muhammadu Buhari has been making consultations with stakeholders cutting across all the divides over next year’s general elections. Those he has been meeting include politicians, both within and outside the APC, religious leaders, opinion leaders, youths and market women in every state of the federation and the feelers we are getting are encouraging.

“We are rounding off with the consultations and within the next few days, General Buhari would publicly declare for the race and it is our hope that he would not only emerge the presidential candidate of APC but would eventually be elected come February 2015.”



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