Culled From Sun news Online
The Presidency yesterday described as sad and unfortunate Major-General Muhammadu Buhari’s comments that the Federal Government is the “biggest Boko Haram”. Buhari, former Military Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) also allegedly predicted that there would be bloodshed if the government fails to organise free and fair elections in 2015.
He was hosting a CPC delegation in Kaduna on Monday who lobbied him to contest the presidential poll in 2015.
The Presidency stated that Buhari has consistently played up the North-South divide to the chagrin of patriotic and well-meaning Nigerians which he demonstrated when he restricted his campaigns to the North during the 2011 general elections.
A statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicty, Dr. Reuben Abati, said the most unfortunate part of the statement was the portion in which Buhari was quoted to have said that, “since the leaders now don’t listen to anybody but do whatever they wish, there is nothing the North can do.
“We find it very sad that an elder statesman who once presided over the entirety of Nigeria can reduce himself to a regional leader who speaks for only a part of Nigeria. We now understand what his protégé and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, meant when he wrote in a public letter in October of 2010, telling Nigerians that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” and that Buhari’s “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known.
“Who can know Buhari better than his own political associate? Come to think of it, as the CPC presidential candidate in the 2011 election, how many states in the federation did he visit to campaign for votes? Buhari never bothered to campaign in the southern part of the country and consistently played up the North-South divide to the chagrin of patriotic and well-meaning Nigerians. As the results revealed, Nigerians will never vote for anyone who wants to divide the country. Is Buhari going to continue to be a sectional leader?”, the Presidency asked.
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