The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the February 14 presidential election, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday said he was not surprised at attacks on his person by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party leaders.

He also said that Nigeria could not afford another four years under a PDP-led government.

He explained that a party which had failed to deliver on promises it had been making to Nigerians for almost 16 years, would have nothing new to offer if given another four years.

Buhari said this while receiving in audience a delegation of members of the Peoples Democratic Movement who were in his office to adopt him as their candidate for the 2015 presidential election.

According to him, whether or not the Nigerian elite is willing to admit it, the 2015 elections represent a watershed in the nation’s political history.

He said, “What you have said summarises the problems of this country. You have looked carefully and found out that this year, 2015, whichever way politicians and the elite look at it, is another time or watershed in our political system.

“If we get it wrong this time, and allow the PDP to go again for the next four years, this country is going to be in trouble. Right now, with the unfortunate event of crumbling oil price, the economy is really in a mess. Coupled with insecurity, it is only a country like Nigeria that can survive and get out of this situation we are in. A lot of countries will just disappear either from the map or from the political equation of nation states. But Nigerians are so resilient to the extent that there are international personalities who could not understand why Nigeria still exists.

“There was a former UN Secretary General who said that if he retires, he will go to Nigeria because, according to him, what is happening to Nigeria, no other country can go through it and survive.”

Buhari added, “The 16 years of the PDP has been hell. Remember that we use to have Nigeria Airways, Nigeria Railways, Nigeria Shipping Line. Try and find out how much we have spent on power in the last 16 years from the vast resources we accumulate over that period because the price of oil went up to 142 dollars per barrel.

“What did we do with that money? We said that we paid debts with billions of Naira. If that amount was put into infrastructure such as power, roads, railways, farming etc, the amount of job it will create would be enormous. Today, some of our youths have become danger to the society because of lack of jobs. I hope the elite will properly document these 16 years as presenting the worst leadership this country has ever witnessed.”

Buhari noted that for Nigeria to develop, there must be a conscious effort to plan for the youths who, he said, constituted 65 per cent of the nation’s population.

He also said that the decision of his opponents to resort to personal attacks did not come to him as a surprise because “this is Nigeria.”

The candidate said, “I am not surprised. This is Nigeria, if people are serious about this (certificate) issue; they ought to have listened to the legal adviser of INEC.

“This is the fourth time, I’ll run for this office and INEC by law have got those documents. They (INEC) said they have got them. Anybody who has any different idea should go to court. They are now in court, let them remain there.”

Buhari also commended the PDM for coming out to join him in his quest to rescue Nigeria.

He told the delegation that he was delighted that the political family which former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was leading had formally declared support for him.

He revealed that he had tried to get them on board through Atiku who he described as “your senior colleague, the Turakin Adamawa.”

Earlier, the leader of the delegation, Bashir Ibrahim, who is also the national chairman of the party, said the delegation took the decision to support Buhari at a National Executive Committee meeting.

He said, “The NEC of our party, at its meeting of January 22, 2015 noted that the party has no presidential candidate for the election of February 14. It considered and accepted the need to support a candidate in order to save Nigeria for imminent collapse and give it a new lease of life.”

Meanwhile, the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation has alerted the nation’s security agencies of a plot to use thugs to embarrass Buhari.

According to the APC campaign, the plot is aimed at disrupting the campaign rally of its candidate scheduled to hold in Taraba State on Wednesday (today).

This was contained in a statement issued by the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the Campaign organisation.

It was signed by its Director, Mallam Garba Shehu. He said the APC Campaign got wind of a plan to use thugs to throw stones and sachets of water at the Buhari team when it visits the state.

http://www.punchng.com/news/attacks-on-my-person-not-surprising-buhari/

As for me, the sponsored video by PDP and AIT is the dumbest campaign strategies of all time.
So dumb, unprofessional and full of lies (iro n la)
I dey so sure well well say Fayose get hand there

Oga Buhari,
How can you swear affidavit for a qualification school result?
Can't you simply ask WAEC or the University to produce your result if you have lost your copy?

This affidavit exposed you as a shameless liar or hilarious Ediot.

GMB a man with a cool mind #ACE

Great man. Incorruptible man of the people. We are lucky to have you in this country. You are the only person at this particular time in our country to rescue Nigeria from the mouth of PDP.

cycline404:
As for me, the sponsored video by PDP and AIT is the dumbest campaign strategies of all time.
So dumb, unprofessional and full of lies (iro n la)
I dey so sure well well say Fayose get hand there

The Ekwueme part of the documentary was so fake and funny.

cjrane:
Oga Buhari,
How can you swear affidavit for a qualification result?
Can't you simply ask WAEC or the University to produce your result?

This affidavit exposed you as a shameless liar or hilarious Ediot

Mr. Why not go to court.
I believed they call off the strike to enable the charge and bail lawyer's have something to do.
Clueless team.

Am ashamed with the PDP led government last week it was certificate,now someone is asking why didnt he pass mathematics,very soon it would be why does he always Put on Agbada and not Suit...Its a shame that @ 55, we as human beings havent developed mentally to tackle constructive criticisms and critical arguements,instead we resort to slander,jibes and yabbing @ any slight opportunity just because we are clueless or have no idea on how to answer a simple question.....GEJ and his cohorts have embarrased themselves totally by resorting to village square tactical assault and insult campaign....I liked GEJ in 2011,i voted for him,i though he was gona continue from where yaradua stopped,but instead He got to the junction and created his own path to destruction....Sai Buhari 2015

sincerenigerian:



The Ekwueme part of the documentary was so fake and funny.

The video was so dumb shai power hunger na bad thing.

Fayose
Pej
Asari
Doyin
Ffk
They are the directors of the movie.

cjrane:
Oga Buhari,
How can you swear affidavit for a qualification school result?
Can't you simply ask WAEC or the University to produce your result if you have lost your copy?

This affidavit exposed you as a shameless liar or hilarious Ediot.

Confusing your self since 1456.
Type The name you are pointing in fb and see how many results u will receive.

This ancient illiterate jus de yarn opata up n down.
Great grandpa,just do d needful,
Show us Ur 'particular'

Ride on, my General Muhammadu Buhari.
Those of us who are with you are way beyond those who are against you as endorsed and pronounced by the most recent AIT online poll result

cjrane:
Oga Buhari,
How can you swear affidavit for a qualification school result?
Can't you simply ask WAEC or the University to produce your result if you have lost your copy?

This affidavit exposed you as a shameless liar or hilarious Ediot.

Bros no need getting abusive, sue him if you ain't satisfied. The guy no abuse anybody na

My problem with this stupid People’s
Democratic Party today is that its
government and leadership do not even see
that Nigeria is in trouble. While majority of
our people wallow in abject poverty, and the
gap in inequality gets ever wider by the day,
yet PDP has basked in self-celebration of
imagined accomplishments and character assassination of the opposition. How can a
party or a government even begin to solve a
problem that it does not believe exist? Like
in all things, PDP is stuck in denial and I pity those who out of tribal, region and ethnic sentiment are hell bent of continuing with a govt that can't guarantee the lives of its citizens.

These APShits no dey sleep?
Sorry oh. Una dey defend your paycheck.

Nawa o for Nigeria politics o

We aren't surprised too.

When one has no good records to sell his candidacy with, he resorts to mudslinging. Their crushing defeat awaits them on February 14.

When these people say they want to rescue the country from PDP, one begins to wonder what they are actually saying. They want to rescue the country from themselves? Because those that are in APC now were once in PDP.
From this premise, neither of the two parties deserves to lead the country because they are basically made up of the same content.
Until we see the spring up of a new breed of politicians who have not had any romance with the old breed, no change will happen. You don't recycle the same thing and call it a change.

I like his simplicity.

.

Its obvious Jonadumb and his PDP dont have anything to offer other than to attack the person of GMB

The peoples General, we are solidly behind you

Sai Buhari

Lol is this shameless Man still talking thrash?
The Obasanjo that is his highest fan led pdp government for 8 out of the 16 years, Jonathan has only 6years of it

If there's anything wrong with the last 16years of PDP government blame Obasanjo who is now in ur team of liars and shameless men

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sincerenigerian:



The Ekwueme part of the documentary was so fake and funny.

Why that part?

sincerenigerian:
Great man. Incorruptible man of the people. We are lucky to have you in this country. You are the only person at this particular time in our country to rescue Nigeria from the mouth of PDP.

I will agree with you and start campaigning for Buhari today if you show us what Buhari has done for this country in his entire life