I won’t quit politics until... –Buhari •Begins consultation on 2015

A former military head of state and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the last general election, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has resinded his decision to contest for the position of the president of the country, saying that he won’t quit until sustainable democracy is entrenched.

Buhari declared that he would not quit active politics, while he charged his supporters to gird their loins for the 2015 general election.

He had announced he would be giving up presidential race after the April 2011 election at the final rally of his party in Abuja, a few days before the poll.

But his U-turn came to the fore in an address he delivered during an empowerment programme orga-nised by one of the representatives of the party in the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Honourable Muha-mmed Ali, in Kaduna.

“I won’t quit politics until good governance and sustainable democracy is entrenched in this country,” he said.

He added that “we should not be illusioned that demoracy dividends will ever come to us easily without making sacrifices and the time for proper change is 2015,” Buhari said.

The Katsina-born politician disclosed that he honoured the invitation of Honourable Ali, as part of his consultations with stakeholders on “the Nigeria Project,” while he promised to hold a world press conference on his future political plans as soon as the Supreme Court dispensed with the case before it, where he was challenging the declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan as the winner of the last presidential election.

He enjoined his supporters to shun acts of violence and brigandage, while calling on them to always get registered by the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) so as to vote and guard their votes during polls.

The chairman on the occasion, Captain Moha-mmed Joji (retd), tasked the 13 CPC lawmakers in the Kaduna State assembly to emulate Honourable Ali’s empowerment and skills acquisition programmes for about 550 people.


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