Elections In Nigeria Are About Naira And Dollar, Not Religion and Ethnicity – General Buhari

Former Head of State and the Presidential aspirant of All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd.) has described elections in Nigeria as all about Naira and Dollar and not about religion and ethnicity.

“I understood that it was not about religion and ethnicity, but Naira and Dollar,” General Buhari noted at the All Progressives Congress (APC) Northern stakeholders’ interactive meeting in Kaduna.

He went on: “I contested the Presidential election three times in this country and failed and ended up in the Supreme Courts and lost the case. The first time the judges agreed that there were no elections and they were all Christians, but the second time, the judges that declared that the PDP had won despite the irregularities were Fulanis from Adamawa and Taraba, and a Nupe man. That was when I understood that it was not about religion and ethnicity, but Naira and Dollar. So, there is the need for the party to be united and make a difference in the general elections in 2015.”

The former Head of State described 2015 as another year of extreme concern to Nigerians, urging participants at the meeting not to allow their members to be disenfranchised before or during the elections.

“If PDP is given another four years to rule this country, Nigeria will go down the drain in 2015. This is because Nigerians are tired of incompetent leadership, so we must be ready to make sacrifices that will salvage the country. Let us not allow our people to be disenfranchised during the elections. We must be united to ensure free, fair and credible elections in 2015.”

APC presidential aspirants present at the meeting included former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and Sam Nda Isaiah. Other members were Zamfara State Governor, Ab­dulazeez Yari, APC Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Lawal Shuaibu, among others. [myad]