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STRONG indication emerged on Wednesday that General Muhammadu Buhari would declare for the presidential race within the next few days, as he rounds up his nationwide consultations.
One of his political aides disclosed in confidence that the former head of state was set to contest the 2015 presidential election on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC).
General Buhari started contesting presidential election in 2003, when he ran against the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, under the platform of the All Nigerian People’s Party (ANPP).
Buhari also contested in 2007 and in 2011 against the late president, Umaru Yar’Adua and President Goodluck Jonathan respectively.
With the merger of the leading opposition parties that gave birth to APC, Buhari’s camp strongly believed that if he could get 11 million votes when he ran under the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), then winning the next year poll was a forgone conclusion.
Speaking with some journalists in Abuja, on Wednesday, an aide of the former head of state, who did not want his name in print, disclosed that as soon as the ongoing consultations were over, the former military top brass would throw his hat into the ring.
“General Muhammadu Buhari has been making consultations with stakeholders cutting across all the divides over the next year general election.
“We are rounding up with the consultations and within the next few days, General Buhari would publicly declare for the race and it is our hope that he would not only emerge the presidential candidate of APC, but would eventually be elected in February 2015,” he said.
When reminded of some bigwigs of the party like former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Musa Kwankwaso, among others, the source dismissed their chances with a wave of hands.
Source: Tribune
