APC Bars Buhari From Commenting On His 2015 Ambition At A Press Meeting

The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday barred former military Head
of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, from publicly commenting on his
2015 presidential ambition.
The party gave the order at the first meeting of its national leaders in Abuja,
which was attended by the state governors, officers and major stakeholders.
The meeting was called to mobilise for nationwide registratioan of new
members and solicit the support of members for finance to run the new party.
The leadership also gave its nod to the former governor of Anambra State,
Senator Chris Ngige, to carry the flag of the party in the November 16
governorship election.
APC, however, said that the party would still hold primaries in the state.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had last month
formally registered APC with the fusing together of Action Congress of
Nigeria, ACN; All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, and Congress for Progressive
Change, CPC.
During the question and answer session with newsmen, Buhari was asked to
confirm if he would contest the presidential election in 2015 and before he
could answer, the party’s Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, cut
in to restrain Buhari.
Akande said: “I overrule Buhari from answering that question. This is my
press conference and if anybody wants to declare to contest, he should call
his press conference in his house.”
Buhari also declined to comment on the ongoing restructuring in the party,
saying that henceforth all questions about the party and its politicies must
be directed to the national chairman.
Akande noted that the meeting was to commence the process of sensitising
party members and millions of supporters to “who we are and what we stand
for, as a party that represents and champions the aspirations of most
Nigerian citizens.
He said: “It is common knowledge that our country has for many years now
been confronted by fundamental, daunting and multi-dimensional challenges.
“This is clearly indicated by the recurring crises that bedevil its social
fabric, political processes, structure of governance, and indeed, its economic
and developmental processes. The result is that the nation and its citizenry
continue to exist in a state of near permanent trauma.
“The philosophy underpinning the coming into being of the APC, therefore, is
the determination to bring the country back from the brink of collapse,
despair, and possible disintegration; reposition it decisively on the route to
emerging into a modern stable democratic nation, with a productive economy
that is based on equity and justice for all citizens.
“This would be attained through the harnessing of the abundant energies,
enterprise and intellect of all Nigerians.
“We believe that at the core of the paralysing challenges confronting Nigeria
today is the failure of governance, which is manifested in the continuing
inability of the Nigerian State to meet the basic requirements and aspirations
of the nation and of its citizenry.”
The national chairman, however, said that the task before APC was to create
a partnership with the people to decisively change both tone and substance
of governance in the country.
“The Nigerian state must not only be strengthened but reconstituted to
become the veritable tool of resolving and managing the fundamental
challenges confronting the nation.”
He said that such challenges could be broadly categorised to include the
challenge of national unity and integration; perennial threats to security, law
and order; ensuring rapid economic growth with equity (people centered
economic management); protecting and consolidating Nigeria’s emerging
democratic tradition.
Others are prioritising human development in health, in education –
particularly intensification of mass women education and employment
opportunities for all our youths; instituting a sustainable management of the
environment; and that Nigeria assumes its proper place in world affairs
commensurate with its size and status as the leading black nation in the
world.

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