Firefire:
Unfortunately that is the BEST the alleged Progressive Party could provide… maybe?

Quit presidential race now , El-Rufai tells Buhari , IBB
From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja

Thursday, September 30, 2010
• El-Rufai

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has asked former military rulers, Generals Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) and Muhammadu Buhari, to quit the 2011 presidential race.

Speaking with Daily Sun in Abuja at the Leadership independence conference organized by the Leadership Newspaper on Nigeria at 50, El-Rufai canvassed the enthronement of a new generation of leaders.

“I have great respect for President Babangida. I think he has done a lot for Nigeria. You won’t take that from him. He has made his mistakes like every human being, but people like President Babangida and General Buhari should just disappear. ***** They should give way to a new set of people with new ideas. Young people preferably,” El-Rufai said. *****


El-Rufai said the whole world is now being ruled by young people and wondered why old blood should continue to rule Nigeria. “Obama is 48 and Cameron is 43 for God’s sake. So, why are we recycling leaders that ruled this country very well or very badly 25 years ago?,” he queried.


======> El-Rufai said: “I was 25 years old when Buhari and Babangida were Heads of State and I am now 50 and they still want to be Head of State. I don’t understand that. I don’t understand that at all and I call on the young people of Nigeria to take their future into their hands and ensure that in the next election, they vote for a new generation of leaders. <======

“I think that we will not make progress until we break the link from the past and just move on. 70 per cent of Nigerians are below the age of 40. Many of these young people, the next generation, as they are called, are on internet services such as Facebook and twitter, using Blackberry and if you ask any of these people running for presidency, they will think that Blackberry is a fruit. So, we have to move away from there and stop thinking that this leadership thing is all about us or all about individuals.

We must put the future of the country at heart and give way to a new generation of leadership.”
While declaring that the nation had something to celebrate for remaining united as one country despite fighting a civil war, El-Rufai, however, said there was a lot to reflect about. “As we look towards the next 50 years, I think the principal issue in Nigeria has been the failure of leadership. We have not made the progress that our human and natural resources entitled us to make and it is all because we have failed leaders,” he noted.

On the forthcoming elections, El-Rufai said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would ensure credible elections in 2011. “I have personal confidence in Prof. Attahiru Jega. He is a man of great integrity. He is an honest man, who could not be bought at any price and for that reason, we are all hopeful that he will ensure free and fair elections,” he said.

mikeansy:
The word "progress" or "progressive" clearly means nothing to the members of All PROGRESSIVE Congress!!!!!

APC is one huge contradiction!

People are waiting for them to nominate Buhari as their candidate and they will learn what throwing the kitchen sink means in politics!

menabadoo:
I don't think I have a problem with the party yet except that they will never tell you what they have to offer and the politics of criticism is what they are good at. None of their prospective presidential candidate is worth voting for, atiku's archive is also very controversial.

politricks:
Are you trying to say Ekiti state also went back to their vomit?.

menabadoo:
Well, sounds similarly only that fayose is not 73years old and fayose didn't rule ekiti during the early post-colonial era.

mikeansy:


And Fayose did not emerge after power was robbed using guns to expel the existing government!

nakamora:
I prefer an old man free of corruption to a young man that is corruption personified.'stealing is not corruption'.

chamboy:
Back to this Issue, I just feel ppl r afraid of buhari, that man is Top Notch....... we need a Top Thug like dis baba not all dis silly young n Clueless rubbish

nakamora:
I prefer an old man free of corruption to a young man that is corruption personified.'stealing is not corruption'.

nuclearboy:
This is so strange - Why are APC's enemies helping it choose its candidates? If truly you say the man isn't electable and doesn't pose a problem for Jonathan, why aren't you supporting him so its easier for Jonathan?

Something very wrong here

Gbawe:


Thank you. As far as we all know, Atiku, Nda Isaiah and Kwanwaso are still vying for the APC ticket also. What then,other than fear of a loss to the General, can explain the desperate focus of TANdroids on Buhari while nada is said about Atiku, Kwankwaso, Sam Nda Isaiah and others? Why do we see 50 or more threads opened daily on Nairaland, all dedicated to discrediting Buhari, while zilch is said about Atiku and others? Abeg, who is fooling who and why are they afraid of Buhari?

mikeansy:


If APC is a serious party they will take a chance on Fashola in 2015 knowing he could lose. He concedes defeat if he loses but maintains his structures and be the opposition leader!

Fashola gains experience and runs again in 2019 and wins!

I don't remember an incumbent President who has lost election in Africa!

In Ghana and Kenya where power has changed parties it is always when there is no incumbent President seeking re-election!

Nigeria opposition think they can go to sleep, wake up on the eve of elections and defeat the ruling party! Just won't happen!

menabadoo:
my friend listen straight "we have lots of young people who can get this thing right". I see no reason why I should subscribe to government of a former head of states who spent most of his tenure executing people against him. I cannot have a 73years old former head of states who never contribute anything substantial while the great nations of the world have their leaders less than 60.

chamboy:
so u stick to clulessness bah, am sure u don't know what corruption n indiscipline has caused this nation

menabadoo:
nope, you seem not to know what tribalism and islamic extremism has cost this nation