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Ahead
of the upcoming 2019 general elections, some support groups of the president,
Muhammadu Buhari, have declared support for candidate of the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.
At
an elaborate event at Ajuji hotel, Gudu district of Abuja on Monday, the groups
said their decision to dump president Buhari and the All Progressives Congress
(APC) was due to “marginalization and deliberate impoverishment”.
The
press conference was addressed on behalf of the groups by Yusuf Ardo, the
National Coordinator of the Grassroots Mobilisers for Buhari (GMB) who said
that the Grassroots Mobilisers for Buhari is a political pressure group that
was registered in 2015 with the relevant government agency, with national,
zonal, states, local government areas, wards and polling units leadership.
He
claimed his group has over “5 million registered members” across Nigeria that
mobilised Nigerians from all works of life through organisation of Town Hall
meetings, community by community to sensitise people at the grassroots for the
actualisation of Mr Buhari’s presidential aspiration in 2015 and “We toured the
country and campaigned for the emergence of the current APC led federal
government.
“This
forum he says, coordinated all support groups for APC and championed Grassroots
Mobilizations of Nigerians.”
Yusuf
Ardo said that the group attributes their decision to support Atiku Abubakar to
the “failure” of President Buhari and “Sequel to the foregoing, we are sad,
that the government we put in place has failed and continues to fail our
people; we cannot continue to reinforce failures.”
Ardo
criticized the president for not having youth in his cabinet, saying: “How can
we have a federal cabinet without a single youth?” he asked. “A government that
does not take the youths into account is a dying government; the future belongs
to us, the young people.
“Today,
our country is faced with legions of challenges, our economy that was the
fastest-growing in Africa has gone comatose under the present government that
has shown unprepared and completely clueless. “Unemployment has risen to an
alarming level, instead of creating three million jobs per year as promised
during 2015 campaigns; millions of jobs are being lost quarterly, with many
companies folding up,” he said.
He
said he believed Nigeria’s economy under Atiku Abubakar will be revived and
returned to the path of progress that it was before the “misfortune” of
President Buhari and “We strongly believe that Atiku will ensure
diversification of the economy through Agriculture, adequate supply of power,
massive industrialization, thereby creating employment for our teaming youths.”
“Our
predicament and future of the youth in Nigeria is highly threatened, that is
why we have resolved one hundred percent (100%) to support His Excellency,
Atiku Abubakar, GCON, come 2019 for our large interest in this country.” “We
need Atiku’s helping hands to liberate our people from the present situation we
have sadly found ourselves.”
Reacting
to the development, Festus Keyamo, campaign spokesperson of the Buhari Campaign
Organization said people were free to make their choices, adding that they also
receive hundreds of decampees, daily.
“Every
day we receive hundreds of people who dump the PDP and are willing to work for
us.”
He
however said he doubted if the groups are genuine supporters of President
Buhari.
“I
doubt if they are genuine Buhari supporters because the name does not ring a
bell.”
He
said many mercenaries were looking for their daily bread so he would not be
surprised to see such development.
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