Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai,has expressed confidence in the ability of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Retd.), to send President Goodluck Jonathan packing from Aso Rock in 2015.
Pictured above is a photo and tweet the Kaduna State APC governorship candidate recently posted on his Twitter page,arguing that Nigerians are no longer comfortable with Jonathan being in the saddle over his alleged long list of “broken promises.”
El-Rufai’s optimism about APC’s chances in the 2015 presidential election came amid an onslaught by some pro-Jonathan activists who accused Buhari of being “unelectable.”
Using the hashtag, #ForgiveBuhari, the anti-Buhari commentators stated that it was out of place for
the retired general to aspire for the highest office in the land after having truncated a democratic government in 1983.
According to them, Buhari must be made to account for his past deeds before he is given a chance to rule Nigeria in a democratic setting.
PUNCH reports that one of the pro-Jonathan online commentators, May Ubeku, accused Buhari of subverting civilian rule in 1983, adding that he should not be given the chance to reap from Nigeria’s hard-earned democracy.
“Unblessed are those that forgive Buhari who truncated our fragile democracy in 1983. Remember,we didn’t get back this democracy until 1999. That is 15 years!” Ubeku argued.
One of the prominent anti-Buhari campaigner is a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. He also stated on Sunday that the emergence of the APC presidential standard bearer as Jonathan’s main
challenger had set the tone for the “battle for the soul and future of our nation.”
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