Nigerian Elite Don't Want Buhari For President - APC Chief

Osita Okechukwu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, , has said the Nigerian elite do not want Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to become president because they know he would wage war against corruption.

Okechukwu who stated this in a goodwill message at the launching ceremony of a group, Friends of Buhari, in Abuja, said the elites are fully aware Buhari will build new refineries and he will not carry raw cash to South Africa for the purchase of military equipment, Premium Times reports.

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He said: “The tiny top elite are fully aware that General Muhammadu Buhari, GMB, as a president will stridently, in line with the Manifesto of the APC, wage war against corruption.

“They know he will build new refineries, having built two before as Petroleum Minister; hence putting a stop to refined petroleum products importation where they make billions without query. They know that he and Tam David-West are the only former Ministers of Petroleum who neither own an oil block nor a petrol station."

According to Okechukwu, the tiny top elite have refused to give up their fight against Buhari, to stop him from serving the Nigerian masses which have been long looted, exploited and subjected to suffering.

“Today, in order to Stop GMB the tiny top elite had covertly influenced the design of a Guideline for Presidential Primary that more or less catapults the APC presidential primary to a Stock Exchange where the highest Bidder will emerge,” he said.

Mr. Okechukwu said if elected, Mr. Buhari would provide maximum security for Nigerians, wage war against corruption and enact a law for the devolution of power.

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He therefore urged the group to continue to appeal to the leadership of the APC to either adopt Mr. Buhari as a consensus candidate for the February presidential poll or go through direct primaries where the masses that own the APC would genuinely and fully participate in electing their presidential candidate.

The Friends of Buhari group is pushing for the election of Mr. Buhari as APC candidate in the 2015 presidential election.

Buhari, who ruled the country as a military head of state between 1983 and 1985, contested for presidency on the platform of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in 2003 and 2007 but lost. He contested again in the last election of 2011 under the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change, CPC but lost again to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP).

Buhari has refused to give up his fight for the presidential post as there are indications he will be contesting once again in the forthcoming 2015 presidential elections under the platform of the APC.

Source: Legit.ng