Buhari Reveals Why He Decided To Run For Presidency Once Again

Former Nigerian Head of State, Gen. Muhamadu Buhari has declared his intention to vie for the position of Nigeria’s president once again. Speaking in Abuja at a briefing consisting of about 60 different groups urging him to run for the presidency, Buhari revealed that he chose to run because the Peoples Democratic Party-led federal administrations from 1999 till date lacked purpose and that it seems as if there is no government in place in Nigeria presently. He said that he will declare his intention to run formally on October 8.. He suggested that the nature of the Nigerian leadership at present has spurred him to step him to set things right. He said, “Today, we are in the 15th year of purposeless leadership by the PDP and all we have seen is unprecedented deterioration in the security and law and order situation, astronomical rise in the incidence and intensity of corruption, and in the failure of governance. “And as we reach this last lap of the journey, I would like to request that we concentrate all our effort and energy toward realising and achieving change in how this country is run. “The only way to meaningful change in this country is to vote the PDP out of power to which it was never legitimately elected, anyway. The task before us today is wide ranging and very great. The first and most important is to take away power from those who have been misusing it. “Indeed, except for the call of patriotism, public-spiritedness and an abiding love for the people off this country, nothing will today make honest, honourable and sane politician want to be saddled with Nigeria and an economy in trouble and a society in even deeper trouble – with its perilous security situation, with its extensive and almost unmanageable corruption and with its pervasive lawlessness. And a government – is there really a government? – that is not working.” A former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, had last week declared his intention to contest the presidential election on the same APC platform, Nigeria’s main opposition party. Buhari, presently a retired major general, once ruled Nigeria as a military head of state between 1983 and 1985. When democracy returned to effect, Buhari contested three times for the presidency position;twice under the aegis of ANPP and once under CPC, but lost every time to PDP candidates.