Ahmed Makarfi, A presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged the PDP to field a strong candidate if it must defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

Makarfi disclosed that Buhari still commands a very strong followership in the northern region which has highest number of voters in the country.



Makarfi said that PDP should work on the psychology of voters in the north as many of them “still retain blind followership for Buhari.”

He promised to tackle insurgency, insecurity, unemployment, herdsmen killings, epileptic power supply, infrastructural challenges as well as other challenges in the country. “If we want to win the election, we must not lose the north and we should give them the candidate they trust in the north.

“The problem for us winning is the North; the current president comes from there and there is blind followership there. If we want to win, we should field a strong candidate from there. “We must work on the psychology of the Buhari’s sentimental followers in the north and change their mind towards us.”

“First of all is the restructure of the country to make it good for everybody, restructuring of the security and creation of jobs and infrastructure development in all respects and promoting the private sector so that it can become effective employer of labour.
“We have also looked at some issues protocol that we have which have negative impact in the country.

“Any issue of protocol that doesn’t serve national interest in terms of security we will dialogue with other country where they have got it right and restructure ours.

“I have been tested and proven myself as governor of Kaduna state as selected chairman of Senate committee finance, my records are there and as party chairman of PDP when people are not given the chance to make the party to survive.”

Source: jornalng.com

https://journalng.com/2018/08/25/one-sure-way-defeat-buhari-2019-ahmed-makarfi/