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"I’ll Run For Presidency In 2015," Says Buhari

Former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in 2011 elections, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday declared that he would contest the 2015 presidential election.

He promised not to disappoint Nigerians if voted him as president.

Buhari said he would embark on the desired transformation, stressing that the elections of 2003, 2007 and 2011 lacked fairness “as people’s votes were not allowed to count.”

He noted that this was responsible for lack of meaningful development in the country.

Buhari, therefore, urged the electorate to ensure that their votes count in the elections and engage in grassroots mobilisation for credible persons to be voted into positions of leadership.

The ex-head of state, who stated this yesterday during the North-West Zonal CPC Contact and Mobilisation Committee meeting in Kaduna, said that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had almost destroyed the entire system in the country.

He stressed that urgent actions were needed to put the country back on the right track to bring dividends of democracy to the people.

Buhari, who is also the Chairman of the CPC Board of Trustees, BoT, urged the party faithful and Nigerians to support the All Progressives Congress, APC, a coalition of political parties determined to wrestle power from the PDP.

“In 2015, if given the mandate, I will uphold your trust,” he added.

Earlier, the National Coordinator of the Contact and Mobilisation Committee, Senator Solomon Ewuga, said the North-West meeting was aimed at sensitising party members to the planned merger and appoint committee members for the zone.

He said that the Kaduna State CPC governorship candidate in 2011 elections, Alhaji Haruna Sa’eed, would be the North-West Zonal Chairman of the Contact and Mobilisation Committee, while the state chairman, Ahmadu Yaro Coca-Cola is the State Coordinator.

Ewuga, however, urged the party members to ensure that the merger talks became a reality