Hammond said in the message: “I congratulate Muhammadu Buhari on his election victory as the next President of Nigeria and also President Goodluck Jonathan for the statesmanship he has shown in delivering free and fair elections and accepting the result
Browsing: Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari
He said: “It is a moment when hope is re-born, faith is rekindled and a fresh fire of patriotism is released for the task ahead. I congratulate General Buhari, Nigeria’s President-elect, on his hard won victory. I salute our gallant party leaders and members for running the long distance to victory
He said: “By his resounding success in the election across the country, General Buhari has proved that he is the choice of the people.”
This is to celebrate the historic victory of General Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, in the 2015 presidential election
Justice Adeniyi Ademola, while delivering ruling on the two joinder applications, held that the two applicants were mere meddlesome interlopers who should not necessarily be parties in the suit
Amaechi said the compromised religious leaders are circulating documents to Nigerians alleging that the APC and Buhari will islamize the entire country if elected into power during the February general elections
He said the election of Buhari as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress was his success as he would continue to support him to ensure his victory in 2015
Abubakar, who ran against Buhari for the ticket of the APC, congratulated Buhari on his Facebook page
Checks at the Eagle Square by The Eagle Online revealed that thousands of Buhari’s supporters from the Northern states of the Federation have already stormed venue of the declaration on Tuesday night ahead of the programme on Wednesday.
This was in veiled reference to the quizzing by the Department of State Security of a chieftain of the APC, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.
El-Rufai was accused by the DSS of making inciting statements ahead of the 2015 general election
The National Coordinator of the group, Aderemi Oyebamiji, said this while addressing journalists in Ibadan on Tuesday
Buhari added that the party would rule Nigeria no matter the opposition from other political parties.
Buhari, a chieftain of the party, made the remark while addressing party faithful at a Sensitisation Rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers State
Obasanjo was elected as president on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party
The office has described the story as false and the handiwork of evil persons who are out to tarnish the image of Okupe and cause disaffection in the country by setting citizens against each other and against government
In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the ACN said the paranoia over the merger plans has driven the PDP-led Federal Government to resort to imprudent and crude tactics aimed at tarnishing the image of key opposition leaders, especially its National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his Congress for Progressive Change counterpart, General Muhammadu Buhari
A statement from the Office of the President’s spokesman indicated that he has also extended his condolences to the families of the deceased.
Jonathan does not personally suffer Boko Haram neither does Diezani Allison-Maduekwe, both of whom are in the news for the perfidy in the oil industry. After six or 10 years that he apparently aspires to do, Dr. Jonathan will one day leave office. The one who takes over from him, a Northerner or whoever it is, would not like to spend his four or eight years fixing Jonathan’s de-development of the nation
I respect General Buhari’s decision not to represent the Boko Haram. That however does not make it the right decision on the matter. I don’t read crystal balls. But this unwise decision will return to hurt Buhari as leader and politician as did an earlier mistake he made in reaction to a false and malicious news report
In a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Emeka Obasi, Kalu said there was nothing wrong with the refusal of the offer by Buhari, adding that he was in a position to talk with the group for the return of peace to the country
Buhari, who spoke on Wednesday in Abuja at the CPC’s Board of Trustees meeting, said he was not willing to negotiate on behalf of a faceless group