Northerners declare Support for Buhari
The Arewa Consultative Forum and the Northern Elders’ Forum have declared their support for presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), naming him as their consensus candidate for 2015.
The forums, said on Friday, that the Northern people would support a northern candidate and since APC has fielded a candidate from the region, they had no alternative than to support him.
He said: “President Jonathan shouldn’t be in the contest in the first place if the principle of zoning that was created by his party and the constitution is respected. He shouldn’t be a candidate by now.
“First of all, the APC presidential primary and the PDP convention have clearly shown those who are ready to practice democracy. The APC’s primary was held smoothly without any rancour and all of them have come out to accept the result. That is a good omen for our democracy. I hope INEC will emulate that.
“So, we are congratulating Gen. Muhammadu Buhari who has been winning primaries all through. Only when it comes to the general elections, he is always rigged out. We have also seen what happened in the other party.
“I am the Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and we have said it before and we are reiterating it that, we are going to support a northern candidate. And since APC has voted a northern candidate, we are going to support him 100 per cent. So, Buhari is our candidate for the 2015 election.”
