A major political party in the ongoing merger plan of opposition parties, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), has said that it had no plan to drop Buhari as its presidential candidate in the 2015 polls.

Its spokesperson, Rotimi Fasakin, who disclosed this to Sunday Mirror last night during a telephone conversation, said that whereas the ‘merger talk’ was still ongoing and its presidential candidate had not been chosen, Buhari remained a credible Nigerian who had the interest of the country at heart.

It will be recalled that Buhari, while inaugurating the CPC merger committee last week in Abuja, had stated that he would run for the office of president of the country if he was chosen by the parties in the exercise.

Fasakin, while commenting on a recent publication (not Sunday Mirror) that Buhari and another major politician in the exercise, the National Leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who is believed to be eyeing the Vice-Presidential seat, might be asked to drop their ambitions as personal sacrifices, said such issues did not arise.

His words: “Who are these people saying this? This is the handiwork of PDP. They’re afraid of the merger plan and want to frustrate it. They have moles everywhere and they have voted a lot of money to truncate the exercise.

“The truth is this, PDP is afraid of Buhari, and they keep saying that he has no electoral value. In 2011, just before the election, he said he was not going to contest but we prevailed on him and he did so in our national interest.

“This issue about whether Buhari will contest or not, to me, is not an issue now, because merger talk is still in progress. PDP is just looking for something to frustrate us, but they will not succeed”.

Efforts to reach the National Publicity Secretary of the CAN, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, proved abortive as he neither responded to the voice call nor the sms sent to his telephone for comments.

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Merger is dead on arrival.