As the opposition parties continue to warm up for the 2015 general election, one of the major opposition parties, the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, had disclosed yesterday that its national leader and 2011 presidential candidate, Gen Muhammadu Buhari would support a more formidable candidate that will emerge as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives’ Congress, APC, in 2015.
A top member of the merger committee and 2011 governorship candidate in Enugu State, Mr. Osita Okechukwu said that Buhari’s statement about his ambition of becoming the presidential candidate of the APC in 2015 was misquoted.
According to him, if eventually Buhari fails to emerge as APC’s presidential flag bearer, he will throw his weight behind any better candidate.
“If you understood what Gen Buhari said, he indicated interest to run under the banner of the four political parties that will merge to form APC.
”He gave a caveat that if there will be a better or more formidable candidate, he will support the person. So is not as if Gen. Buhari is going out of his way to say, if I am not the presidential candidate, there will be no APC, of course he did not say so.
“To be honest and sincere, Gen Buhari had always said, ‘I support the merger wholeheartedly and if the merger adopts or elects me as their presidential candidate, i will be grateful, but if they don’t I will support the person who will be elected as their presidential candidate. I think it is as clear as that. Buhari has been very clear on that,” Okechukwu added.
Buhari is said to have been misquoted on several national comments and one of his most controversial comments was that which connotes war in 2013 if the status quo is maintained after the election, and there is no change of government.
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