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Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) | credits: nairaland.com

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to respect the wishes of Nigerians for credible polls.

Buhari spoke while addressing Eze Ndigbos of the 19 Northern states and Abuja at his campaign office in Abuja on Friday.

The APC candidate said he had realised that multi-party democracy remains the best form of government since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

According to him, ordinary folks did not leave him alone to enjoy his exit from power after he was released from detention even when they knew he was not rich.

Buhari said, I was sitting at home after leaving detention; I thought people will leave me alone because they know I am not rich. I dont even have a filling station not to talk of oil blocks.

So, I thought I lost their sympathy but people kept on coming to me; there was nothing I could do. And then I speculated that maybe if I join partisan politics, I will get into a position to be heard.

He, however, said democracy as the best form of government would only make meaningful impact when the government respects the rights of citizens to elect those who govern them.

Buhari said, Let the government respect Nigerians as individuals to choose those they want to represent them and to lead them and Nigerians will be surprised to see how peaceful this country is going to be.

I think in a part of every human being, there is an element of rebellion. If you try to force a human being to do what he doesnt like, he will develop a way of resisting it but if you develop a system; you persuade him to accept the system, then justice must be done and you will be surprised how peacefully you will live.

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March 21, 2015 : Sunday Aborisade and Chukwudi Akasike 1 Comment

The Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress on Friday engaged in war of words over claim on abandonment of governance.

While the PDP alleged that the desperation by APC governors to win the forthcoming general elections had led to the suspension of most ongoing projects in their states, the opposition party asked the PDP to wait for the peoples verdict on the March 28 poll day.

In a statement in Abuja by Tony Amadi, the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu listed the APC states where governance was suspended to include Kano, Adamawa, Rivers, Kwara and Sokoto, whose governors defected from the PDP.

The statement read, Following the hijack of the five states, Adamawa is back but the remaining four, including Zamfara State, will return to the PDP after the April 11 elections because their governors have used up their treasury to prop the presidential bid of their party.

The governors of the five states left the PDP for over a year and seven months using the PDP manifesto to try and prop up their new allegiance to the APC.

Unfortunately for their new party and their desperation to become the ruling party, they have made little or no progress, thus leaving their states impoverished as they concentrate on spending their states meager resources to support their partys presidential election bid.

They are doing this instead of providing the dividend of democracy to the people.

In Sokoto State, no new project has been started or completed since Governor Maigatakarda Wammako switched to the APC.

His deputy, Alhaji Mukhtar Shagari, who remained in the PDP, has complained severally that the people of Sokoto are being short-changed because of lack of active governance in the state.

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March 21, 2015 : Fisayo Falodi and Tunde Ajaja 4 Comments

The ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State recently found a ground to achieve a common purpose following the destruction caused by windstorm in some streets in Agege area of the state.

It was learnt that shortly after the incident, the political parties began competing over which one between them would assist the victims of windstorm to fix their damaged property.

The two political parties, which had been throwing mud at each other in the build-up to the forthcoming general elections, it was learnt, suddenly saw the need to assist victims as one of the major steps to woo them for support.

The PUNCH had reported that no fewer than 400 buildings were destroyed by the windstorm, while thousands of residents are rendered homeless.

Some schools were also affected.

Some of the affected streets are Abibatu, Opeifa, Fabowale, Kushoro, Opeolu, Bakare and Opesha, among others.

A source, who did not want his name mentioned, said PDP made the first move to rehabilitate the damaged houses, but APC-led government stole the show from the opposition party by mobilising building materials and workers to fix the affected property.

But those who have yet to get the APC government largess as of the time our correspondents visited them said governments agents had come to the site of their damaged property to assess the level of destruction.

While some are still waiting for help, some others have received help. A resident on Abibatu Street, Akeem Abibatu, was full of praises when Saturday Punch visited the area on Wednesday.

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Fomer Head of State, Maj-Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (retd.) | credits: file photo

All Progressives Governors under the aegis of Progressives Governors Forum will on Monday converge on Owerri, the Imo State capital to fine-tune strategies on how to win the forth coming general elections.

The event will also provide the partys Presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari an opportunity to give an insight into how an APC-led Federal Government will operate.

This was contained in a statement signed by the Director-General of the PGF, Salihu Lukman in Abuja, on Thursday.

According to the Forum, a session, under the theme, March for a New Nigeria will be chaired by the APCs Presidential candidate, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, who is billed to deliver a paper on how a prospective APC-led federal government will work with state governments.

In addition to the presidential and vice presidential candidates, governors and governorship candidates, the partys leadership is also expected to be in attendance as the APC fine-tunes its electoral strategies to win the presidential and state governorship elections.

The PGF said the event also represents part of the APCs strategies of engaging with Nigerians and sharing successful policies and programmes among states governed by the All Progressives Congress.

The conference will also provide a platform for in-depth interaction between the progressive governors and some professional groups regarding the relationship between the recommended policies and the reality of dwindling resources in the country as well as the issue of insurgency and how to regain normalcy in the troubled areas.

The statement read in part: Chairman of the PGF and Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, and his Lagos state counterpart, Babatunde Raji Fashola, will also speak on the imperative peaceful and credible elections.

It also said, Governors Kashim Shettima, Rauf Aregbesola and Adams Oshiomhole of Borno, Osun and Edo states, respectively, will speak on issues ranging from plans for a post Boko Haram reconstruction, strategies for sustaining governance in times of dwindling resources and the effects of PDPs mishandling of the economy and its consequences on state finances.

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