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2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Trut(m): 6:32pm On Mar 20, 2015
Two opposition parties – Independent Democrats and United Progressives Party – have denied pledging support for the All Progressives Congress for the March 28 presidential election.

A total of 12 opposition parties reportedly pledged allegiance to the APC to enable it win the election.
The parties were African Peoples Alliance, Kowa Party, Social Democratic Party, African Democratic Congress, Hope Democratic Party, Democratic Peoples Party and the United Peoples Party.
Others are Accord Party, Independent Democrat, Unity Party of Nigeria and Action Alliance and Peoples Democratic Movement.

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Movement, Bashir Ibrahim, who led representatives of the parties on a solidarity visit to the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, said they would stand with the party by insisting that the right thing is done to ensure credible polls.

However, in a statement by its national director of operations, on Thursday, the ID protested its inclusion in the list of the parties, stating that it had since adopted President Goodluck Jonathan, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the presidential election, as its candidate.

“If Independent Democrats, which is the correct name of our party, was what they referred to in the publication, we categorically state that Independent Democrats was not part of the purported visit and allegiance to Buhari or APC,” the statement said.
“Let it be known that we had earlier on 11th December, 2014, adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as our party’s presidential candidate in a national convention monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission.”

Also in a statement by the Director General of Chekwas Okorie Presidential Campaign Organisation, the UPP denied pledging loyalty to the APC.

The party explained that in its inaugural national executive committee meeting of November 13, 2012 published in a Communiqué, the party zoned its presidential slot to the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria.

“This policy statement was actualized on the 11th of December, 2014 at the Party’s National Convention held at Aba where Chief (Dr) Chekwas Okorie and Alhaji (Barrister) Bello Umar emerged as Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates respectively,” the party said.

“Our party commenced campaign for the coveted office of president thereafter with as much commitment and diligence as it could muster.
“It is a common knowledge that our Presidential Candidate Chief (Dr) Chekwas Okorie has emerged as one of the three foremost contenders for the office of President of Nigeria.”

The UPP said its strategy of grassroots mobilization and strong and powerful message in the well-articulated “Revolutionary Agenda” of its presidential candidate had brightened its chances of winning the presidential election tremendously.
“The fact that UPP has restored the missing Third Leg of the Nigeria political tripod is now of common and public knowledge,” it said. “It is therefore inconceivable, malicious and wicked political blackmail to drag the name of our party to a gang-up we know nothing about.

“We have tried to the best of our ability to avoid hate-speeches, campaign of calumny, denigration of elder statesmen and public office holders and the use of acerbic language likely to heat up the polity in all our campaign up till this time.

“We wish to maintain this attitude of decorum and civility and plead with those misrepresenting us not to provoke us into joining the bandwagon of political desperadoes who create confusion and trouble where none exists. We doubt very much if the leadership of APC is party to this absurdity.”
The UPP, however, explained that it had nothing against any group or party wishing to support any of the foremost political parties, including supporting the party.


The UPP, however, explained that it had nothing against any group or party wishing to support any of the foremost political parties, including supporting the party.
“But it smacks of political misconduct and criminality to drag the name of a foremost Political Party like the United Progressive Party into a conspiracy we know nothing about,” it said.
It assured Nigerians, its supporters and members nationwide Mr. Okorie “is very much in the race for the 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria on the platform of the United Progressive Party with the head of tiger as its symbol.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/178825-parties-deny-allegiance-to-buhari.html

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by nwafuluozoh: 6:34pm On Mar 20, 2015
APC lie lie party.

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by kasiem(m): 6:35pm On Mar 20, 2015
Can apc survive without lies?

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Trut(m): 6:41pm On Mar 20, 2015
Believe APC lies and propaganda at your own peril

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Trut(m): 6:41pm On Mar 20, 2015
kasiem:
Can apc survive without lies?

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by iphanyiuma(m): 6:43pm On Mar 20, 2015
March 4 buhari...28 is not far!!!

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Bluepamex: 6:56pm On Mar 20, 2015
To hell with Aggrieved peoples congress, they are full of lies and propaganda

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by tp10: 7:10pm On Mar 20, 2015
read the link and the headline and see if it makes sense,


pdp,u be the lie lie

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Tallesty1(m): 7:14pm On Mar 20, 2015
kasiem:
Can apc survive without lies?
A fish can't do a day without water

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Beesluv: 7:21pm On Mar 20, 2015
APC doesn't even need them

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Nobody: 7:25pm On Mar 20, 2015
SMH for A-PISS

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by alaoeri: 7:26pm On Mar 20, 2015
APC doesn't need any allegiance to wipe PDP as$ at the polls come March 28 because the masses are angry.

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by IanDiamonds: 7:27pm On Mar 20, 2015
I knew the original story was Untrue... If it were true, the Parties alledged to have supported the APC..would have been listed... This was a bad media stunt...

Meanwhile
#IhaveDecided
#APC
#VoteChange

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by tp10: 7:29pm On Mar 20, 2015
IanDiamonds:
I knew the original story was Untrue... If it were true, the Parties alledged to have supported the APC..would have been listed... This was a bad media stunt...

Meanwhile
#IhaveDecided
#APC
#VoteChange


read the link and the headline and see if it makes sense,
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by IanDiamonds: 7:41pm On Mar 20, 2015
tp10:



read the link and the headline and see if it makes sense,


Thanks for opening my eyes.. I didn't open the link to verify the info...
@OP you are silly for misleading me oh!... PDP don do am again oh: 2 now equals 12
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by GeneralBosco: 8:20pm On Mar 20, 2015
Trut:
A total of 12 opposition parties reportedly pledged allegiance to the APC to enable it win the election. The parties were African Peoples Alliance, Kowa Party, Social Democratic Party, African Democratic Congress, Hope Democratic Party, Democratic Peoples Party and the United Peoples Party.

Read More: www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/178825-parties-deny-allegiance-to-buhari.html
Stop misleading people
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Nobody: 8:24pm On Mar 20, 2015
Seriously shocked
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by ochejoseph(m): 8:25pm On Mar 20, 2015

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by reylova: 8:51pm On Mar 20, 2015
APC can lie

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Nobody: 8:51pm On Mar 20, 2015
This is the way the game is played......
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by mrrock: 8:51pm On Mar 20, 2015
Only a terrorist organization would want to associate with Buhari, a man that ordered his supporters to kill innocent youth cop members in 2011. In an interview he insisted he have no regrets!.

Say no to Boko haram.
Say no to Buhari.

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by sosanova: 8:52pm On Mar 20, 2015
Another APC lie busted

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by alotofgrace(m): 8:52pm On Mar 20, 2015
gbam
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by efilefun(m): 8:52pm On Mar 20, 2015
who sabi them They looking for cheap publicity and some cash from the clueless fisherma.n
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Eonuegbu25: 8:52pm On Mar 20, 2015
Ok na
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Houseofglam7(f): 8:52pm On Mar 20, 2015
Too much fuss about these political parties
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Riodiao(m): 8:52pm On Mar 20, 2015
vote wisely

Letter to Buhari from the grave of the innocents –
By Bashir Yusufu
Dear General Buhari; I would’ve addressed this letter privately to you, but in the expectation that you may not receive it, I decided to make it an Open Letter, in the hope that you would stumble on it, read it and hopefully feel some of the pains and anguish that have been my lot. Having said that, permit me therefore to proceed with the rest of this missive from the grave of innocents departed.
Last night, while I was at my modest home in Katsina, relaxing and probably half-awake, I heard the voice of my cousin who was killed in the North in April 2011 during the post-election violence instigated by your loss of the presidential election. With bloodshot sad eyes, my cousin, looking apparition-like, was wailing “Gen Buhari, why why”. My cousin’s name is (or was) Mallam Yusuf Danfulani, a bright young lad originally from Katsina State, who was slaughtered in cold blood and set on fire by youths chanting “Sai Buhari”, like they are again now chanting in 2015.
Gen Buhari, in case you have forgotten, Yusuf was slaughtered in your name even though he never did any wrong to you, and even voted for you against Dr Jonathan. He lost his life just because the murderers you encouraged by your many hate speeches believed Yusuf to be from middle belt or southern Nigeria, most probably because of his bulky looks and brave, patriotic attempts to prevent the killing of an innocent Youth Corper, Ukeoma Ikechukwu. Even though he cried out in Hausa and Fulfulde, he was still not believed by those you (Buhari) managed to brainwash to see all non-Fulani Nigerians as conspiring to vote against you. In this very case, Yusuf voted for you but his ‘Sai Buhari’ killers never believed he did. Like you, Gen Buhari, the mob was baying for the blood of innocents.
If not for Yusuf’s best friend who was with him and was himself nearly killed, we would not have recognized his charred body that was burnt beyond recognition. And thanks to the same friend for recounting to us the little he could make out at the last moments of Yusuf’s life, the agony he passed through and the most important words he uttered before he gave up. It is the same words I heard him utter last night from the grave: ‘Gen Buhari, why why’. Yet, to this day, you (Buhari) have not cared to apologize or show any remorse, but you instead offered lame excuses for the bloodletting you had instigated, and still instigate. I now ask you this: Gen Buhari, must you always shade blood, like you started doing from 1983, to rule Nigeria? Do you recall how you killed Brigadier Bako in 1983 just so you could take power by force from Shehu Shagari?
General Buhari, Ukeoma Ikechukwu himself was reported missing that same day Yusuf was murdered by your supporters, and finally confirmed dead the following day when his charred remains was discovered in a hooded area. Apparently, your supporters had dragged him out of the open and tortured him before finally snuffing life out of him. Like my cousin, Yusuf, Ukeoma was very young and an innocent. Unlike Dr. Jonathan, they were not contesting against you. Yet, when they were killed, part of Nigeria was killed with them; the same Nigeria that you are now angrily campaigning to rule.
Yusuf and Ukeoma were not alone. Six other innocent Youth Corpers were also murdered in Bauchi, where you Buhari, polled 1,315,209 votes (almost 82 per cent), defeating Dr Jonathan who scored 258,404 votes and did not even hit the 25 per cent mark. The corps members were reportedly chased to a police station where they sought refuge. But the rioters, who were raving mad with bloodlust and chanting “Sai Buhari”, overran the station and murdered the young Nigerians in cold blood. So, Gen Buhari, as you can see from the Bauchi result and it’s aftermath, your supporters even shade blood when you win; still you have no qualms. Today, you are prancing around the nation, arrogant and angry as usual, behaving like you have already won the election; and thus setting up another bloodletting if you are not announced winner.
The story of Obinna Okpokiri is as heart-wrenching as Yusuf’s. The 27-year-old was butchered and burnt to ashes, in the service of his fatherland. Okpokiri’s own circumstances were as gruesome as they could be. He had run to the Corpers’ Lodge as the rampaging ‘Sai Buhari’ rioters targeted Youth Corper polling officers recruited by INEC for the election. As painful death loomed, the young Nigerians contemplated fleeing to the barracks. But they were not lucky enough. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters caught up with them, slaughtered and set them on fire. Like Yusuf, these innocents are human beings and future leaders on the last laps of fulfilling their national duty before moving on to a bright future. But it was not to be because, in your name, Gen Buhari, they were slaughtered, sliced, soaked in petrol and scorched. Reduced to ashes in minutes and in the most callous fashion by those that are not better citizens or humans than them.
General Buhari, while you are now busy inciting another violence, please bear in mind that in 2011, your supporters turned violent in whole 12 northern states as they burned the homes, vehicles, and properties of innocent Nigerians, some of whom are also Muslims and Northerners like you and my cousin Yusuf. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters also targeted and killed Christians and members of southern Nigerian ethnic groups, who were seen as supporting the PDP, and they burnt churches across the north. One particular attack in Bauchi stood out as most heart-breaking. According to Human Rights Watch, on April 17 in Giade, a rural town in northern Bauchi, ‘Sai Buhari’ mobs attacked youth corps members in the town. The Corpers, who were mostly from Yoruba, ran to the local police station to seek refuge, but the mobs stormed the police station. The mob killed the police officer on duty and burned down the police station. They raped two of the female youth corps members and then hacked them to death with machetes, along with five male youth corps members. In total, rioters killed ten youth corps members in that town alone.
A lecturer at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna State, described to Human Rights Watch how a mob of Muslims chanting “Change, Sai Buhari” attacked and killed several Christian students, a Christian lecturer and four Muslim students suspected of being PDP sympathizers on April 17: He said “Between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., they entered the school chanting slogans and shouting: “Where are the Christians and Muslims that supported the ruling party?” They had painted their faces black and were shouting that they needed “change”, the Congress for Progressive Change campaign slogan. The mob had all sorts of weapons – machetes, sticks, and clubs. They started breaking the glass on the buildings. The students ran away but the mob pursued them into the staff quarters and they had nowhere to go. The mob beat them to death. The lecturer they killed was Yoruba“.
Finally, Gen Buhari, let me end this letter by asking you this question: When are you going to apologize to me, to Yusuf’s aged parents, to Ukeoma’s parents, to parents of all innocents murdered by your brainwashed supporters, to Nigeria and to mankind? And here is Yusuf again, asking you from the grave: “Gen Buhari, why why”.
Bashir Yusufu.
yusufubashir@yahoo.com

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Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by Houseofglam7(f): 8:52pm On Mar 20, 2015
Too much fuss about this political parties
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by angrybird007: 8:53pm On Mar 20, 2015
Just one question...
Does this mean OUR GENERAL will not the incoming election undecided
Re: 2 Opposition Parties Deny Allegiance To Buhari by justdivine: 8:53pm On Mar 20, 2015
APC when are u going stop lying to us. Enough of all dis lies. GEJ u have my support because I don't trust dis entity of criminals.

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