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El rufai for Buhari Bakare
Former Minister of FCT, Malam Nasir el-Rufa’i said that he supports Buhari despite his relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan and Malam Nuhu Ribadu because of all the presidential candidates, none has the capacity to address Nigeria’s enormous security threats and corruption like General Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Progressive Change.
El-Rufai stated this at an interview with newsmen yesterday shortly after he chaired the unveiling of the CPC presidential manifesto which held at Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital.
The former minister said he has been a friend of PDP’s presidential candidate, Jonathan since the latter was deputy governor in Bayelsa State which made him (El-Rufai) visit Bayelsa four times. In the case of ACN’s candidate, Ribadu, he said they were not only friends but brothers.
El-Rufa’i also said he knows Malam Ibrahim Shekarau of the ANPP closely, stressing that his association with the three foremost candidates had afforded him the opportunity to assess their individual strengths and weaknesses and came to the conclusion that none of the three can manage Nigeria’s numerous challenges as Buhari.
“Credible leadership is not about friendship, it is about competence and commitments. I know all the candidates; I know what they can do and what they cannot do. By my own assessment and conviction, I can tell you that none of them has the competence of Buhari in terms of being president of this country given our huge problems,” El-Rufai said.
“Buhari has what it takes to stamp out corruption because his mere presence will instil discipline in every one and this is the kind of person we need in this country,” he added.
Buhari’s running mate, Pastor Tunde Ba-kare,- who unveiled the manifesto enumerated Buhari’s programmes for the country on all sectors while listing ways by which the programmes will be implemented. He said Buhari will neither borrow fund nor refer to the foreign reserve to carry out transformation, but will mainly rely on prudence and transparency.
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