NATIONWIDE RELIEF AS GOVERNOR NASIR EL-RUFAI ANNOUNCES PRESIDENT BUHARI’S READINESS TO HANDOVER POWER IN 2019
Governor
Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is
ready to give up power, for Nigeria to move forward.
He also maintained that no
politician currently in the country can defeat President Buhari in an election.
El-Rufai in an interview on
Channels Television, said: “I do not have any doubt in my mind that we are
going to win the next elections; not only in the centre, but we are going to
preserve our 24 States, and even more.
“We are not saying this
foolishly; this is scientific. We are monitoring the pulse of Nigerians, not
the pulse of a section of Nigerians, and I am confident that we are going to
win the 2019 elections.
“We know the pulse of the nation,
we know where we are losing support, we know where we are gaining support; I
have no doubt in my mind that we are going to win the 2019 elections.
“There are two pulses of
Nigerians – there is the pulse of the Nigerian elites, which is the noise that
you hear in the media, the social media, and so on; then there is the pulse of
the people.
“If you remember how many people
came out to welcome President Buhari in Kano, then you will know that there are
two Nigerians.”
Asked how the President received
the proposals by his Committee, El-Rufai added: “He was excited. He was very
pleased, and he said he fully supports what we have done, and that he is
looking forward to the party officially transmitting it to him for his
necessary action.
“President
Buhari is not concerned about his personal power; he is concerned about Nigeria
making progress.
“If giving up power will make
Nigeria progress, he will give all of it up. Not just part of it, but all of
it. This is the real Buhari that many people do not know. It is the most
comprehensive review of this subject matter ever in Nigeria’s history.
“APC’s true Federalism Committee
differs from other Confabs in at least two ways; first, previous Confabs were
conclaves of the elite. The government picks who goes there, they decide who
participates, and it is mostly old people with a sprinkle of a few women. Our
Committee opened the space for everyone.
“More than one-third of the
membership of our Committee were women. More than a quarter of the membership
were young people, below the age of 40. It was a very broad range of
consultation.
Many opposition figures have
expressed support for the report. We have proposed more than 20 alterations to
the constitution. Everything we did is in the best interest of Nigeria.
“So, this is the first time that
a platform has been given to young people and women, and those that are
vulnerable, to give their voices to what shape of the federation they want to
see.
“Because old people like me, 50,
60, 70, cannot define the future for Nigerian youth below the age of 40. What
young women and our people see, is completely different from what old people
see.”
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