Opposition party, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has thrown its weight behind the ambition of its national Leader, General Muhamadu Buhari to contest the presidential election in 2015.
The presidential Candidate of the CPC in the 2011 general elections, Muhammadu Buhari, reportedly declared his intention to re-contest the seat in the 2015 general elections while addressing the party’s supporters in Kaduna on Thursday.
The two-times presidential aspirant, vowed to continue relevant political activism in the run to the 2015 general elections saying “I am still in until the polity is sanitised and people enjoy the fruits of democracy at all levels of government” he told the party supporters.
The party in a statement signed by its national publicity secretary, Engineer Rotimi Fashakin on Saturday, affirmed the party’s position on General Buhari’s recent announcement to run in the election and it also declared its readiness to merger with other political parties ahead of the election.
The party in the statement noted that exactly a year ago, General Buhari, after the 2011 presidential election, declared never to contest in subsequent elections again.
But owing to what it described as “the leadership deficit and the truncation of the hope of the common man through the pervasive injustice in the land”, the party’s leadership claim it has brought “immense pressure on General Buhari to rescind his earlier stance on Nigeria’s tempestuous politics”, hence the renewed support from the party.
CPC further argues the relevance of its national leader in the nation’s polity, noting that “the Nigerian nation has been tottering as a result of the besmirched reputation of an inept, dishonest and egregiously incompetent political leadership.”
The party re-affirmed that for as much as General Buhari is granted ‘the enablement by God’; he “shall continue to actively participate in the politics under the Nigerian nation-space.”
Merger talks
The statement also revealed that the CPC is already in merger talks with some political parties ahead of the next general elections, stating that “it is in alliance and possible merger talks with other progressive coalition partners in order to give true meaning to democratic governance within the Nigerian polity.”
It however refused to disclose parties involved in the talks saying that “it is our considered opinion that it would be rather pre-emptive to speculate at this time what the choice of these coalition partners shall be.”
Merger talks between the party-formed in 2010-and the Action congress of Nigeria (ACN) failed to present a joint presidential candidate, weeks ahead of the 2011 presidential elections.
