* Uncle Buhari e joor smile small*
Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)
The
presidency on Friday said a former Head of State and three-time
presidential candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), stood no
chance of winning the 2015 general election.
Buhari, during the inauguration of the
Congress for Progressive Change Merger Committee in Abuja on Wednesday,
had said the ongoing merger talks by the major opposition political
parties would determine if he would run for the presidency in 2015.
The Katsina State-born general, who had
earlier said he would not run for presidency in 2015, having failed to
win the election three times, said the merger might make him change his
mind.
However Senior Special Assistant for
Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, told one
of our correspondents on Friday that even if Buhari contested, he would
not win the election.
Okupe said even though the President was
not focused on the 2015 elections yet, Buhari’s ambition could not
ruffle the feathers of the Peoples Democratic Party, which Jonathan
belongs to.
He said, “It is a free country and
anyone can contest any election. Also, anyone can change his or her
mind. If Buhari said he would not contest before and has changed his
mind, he is free to do that. But if someone said he would not contest
and later said he would contest, it shows an inconsistent political
disposition.
“Buhari left government a long time ago.
His ideas and other parameters are archaic. I don’t think he stands a
chance to win the election in 2015 if he decides to contest.”
According to him, the ongoing merger talks among the opposition parties were not capable of intimidating the ruling party.
He said, “Mergers are not a new thing.
We have always had mergers in the political history of this country. But
you need to look at the components of this current merger they are
talking about. They are not a suitable alternative to the PDP. They have
not shown themselves to be suitable alternatives.”
Okupe stated that the PDP was superior to all the parties in the merger talk.
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