■ Our politicians should not divide the North –ACF
FormerHeadofStateand All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential aspirant, General Muhammadu Buhari (Retd)came down heavilyon theruling Peoples DemocraticParty(PDP), saying Nigeria would be washed away asa countryif theruling partyis given fourmore years in office in the2015 general election.
In thesamevein, theChairman of the ArewaConsultative Forum (ACF), Ibrahim Coomassie, in a goodwill message delivered on his behalf byBarristerSolo­mon Dalung, urgednortherners notto allow themselves tobe divided bythe artificialdifferences createdbypoliti­cians.
ACF urged politiciansfromthenorthern extraction toput theinterestof the north firstand abovetheir personal interest, saying ACF’s desire is for a united north thatcould give credible leadership in thecountry.
Speaking yesterday,in Kaduna, on behalf of otherpresidential aspirants ofAPC, at theparty’sNorthern stakeholders’ interactivemeeting, General Buhari noted thatNigerians had become tiredof incompetentleadership and urgedthe electorateto ensure thatfree,fairand credibleelectionsthatwill usher in credibleleaders at alllevels ofgovernance in thecountry are held.
APC presidential aspirants presentatthe meeting included formerVice President, Atiku Abubakar,Kano StateGovernor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and Sam Nda Isaiah. Other memberswereZamfara StateGovernor, Abdulazeez Yari, APC DeputyNational Chairman (North), SenatorLawal Shuaibu, among others.
The formerHeadofStatedescribed2015 asanotheryear ofextremeconcernto Nigerians, urging participantsat the meeting notto allow their members to be disenfranchisedbefore orduring the elections.
Apparently,making caricature ofhuge presenceofsecurityoperativesin Ekiti Stateduring thegubernatorial electionin thestate, Buhari notedthatthenumber of soldiers,policeand SSSdeployed to thestateduring theelection,were enough torescuetheabductedChibok girls ifthesame number wasdeployedto thetroubled north east. He recalledwith painsthathecontestedpresidential electionthreetimesin thecountryand ended up in theSupreme Court to challenge his failure,saying thatjudges thatruled on thecaseswere his own brothersfrom theNorth, while those behind him were Southern Christians.
Buharisaid: “If PDP is given another four yearstorule thiscountry, Nigeria will go down thedrain in 2015. This is becauseNigerians are tired of incompetentleadership, so we mustbe readyto make sacrifices thatwill salvage thecountry, let us notallow ourpeople to bedisenfranchisedduring the elections,we mustbeunited toensure free,fairand credible electionsin 2015.
“I contested thePresidential election threetimesin this countryand failed and ended upin theSupremeCourts and lostthecase. The firsttimethejudges agreedthattherewere no elections and theywereall Christians, but thesecond time, thejudges thatdeclaredthatthe PDP had won despite theirregularities, were Fulanis from Adamawa and Taraba, and a Nupeman, thatwas when I understood thatit wasnotaboutreligion and ethnicity, but Naira and Dollar. So, thereis theneed for thepartytobe united and make a difference in the general elections in 2015.”
Meanwhile,in his opening speech,the APC DeputyNational Chairman (North), SenatorLawal Shuaibu said one of the reasonsfor thestakeholdersmeeting was to sensitize theleaders oftheparty abouttheir rolesasguardians and conscience of theparty.
Shuaibusaid, “We expectthatattheend of thismeeting, we will be ableto de­velop and adoptstrategiesfor enhancing partyunityand discipline. We equally hopethataside fromwhatthecon­stitution specifies,wewill be ableto come up withhome-spurned internal conflictresolution mechanisms thatwill solidify thepartyand build itinto a strong institution.”

I hope the general has not started making threats again.

RICHIEBOI1:
I hope the general has not started making threats again.

That man have evil intentions in his mind, and God won't let him rule us again. I just don't know what he want from us.
This man rule this country when I was not yet conceive in my mother's womb.