2015: Why Buhari will win presidentialpoll –Amaechi

The Rivers State Governor and Director-
General of the Buhari Campaign
Organisation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has
said that the All Progressives Congress
(APC) presidential candidate, General
Muhammadu Buhari (retd) will win the
presidential election next year because
the present administration has failed the
people.
Besides, he said the electoral map no
longer favoured President Goodluck
Jonathan.
He said unlike the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), which is having crises in
many states across the nation, the APC
was united, noting that “even the ruling
party knows that it is facing a serious
challenge against its rule.”
Amaechi, who stated this yesterday in an
interactive session with journalists in
Lagos, dismissed speculations that he
was funding the Buhari campaign with
Rivers State funds. He said there was also
no truth in the allegation that his state
owed workers eight months salary,
stating that his state was not owing its
workers, especially as it had just paid
December salaries.
“There is a wrong assumption that Buhari
won’t win but I believe that Buhari will win
and it is simple electoral mathematics.
“Before, the President had South-south
and South-east, but now, there is
problem for the PDP in Cross River, there
is problem for the party in Bayelsa, there
is problem for the PDP in Rivers, Akwa
Ibom and in Delta.
“It wasn’t like that before. By this time,
the PDP would have been dancing, but
have you seen them dancing? When they
were doing the Transformation
Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), I knew it
would get to this point.
“Now have you seen the PDP dance?
They know that they are in trouble
because there is problem with PDP in
Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia. It is no longer the
same. That electoral map appears to have
changed.
“If we go to the North, does APC have
problem in Kano and Kaduna? Do we
have problem in Jigawa, Sokoto. No, it is
PDP that has problem in those states. So,
the political map has changed and that is
why I believe that by God’s grace, Buhari
and APC will win,” Amaechi stated.
He added that: “Before, you have three or
four weak parties that used to confront
the PDP. Now the PDP knows that it has a
strong opposition, they know. Now,
Nigerians want change and they will
protect their results.”
He said unlike in the past, when
opposition parties were unable to have
agents in all the polling units across the
nation, the APC will ensure that it has
people who will serve as its agents in all
the polling units in next year’s general
elections.
However, Amaechi said the people must
be ready to make sacrifice in order to get
the change they are clamouring for in
next year’s general elections.
The Rivers governor promised that if
elected president, Buhari would run a
prudent government that would solve the
electricity problem in the country, create
employment and tackle the Boko Haram
insurgency in the country, as well as
industrialise the nation.
In his words “ The message is simple.
Buhari chased away the Maitasene while
he was Head of State. Maitasene is like
Boko Haram and they were killing people
in Borno. He took Buhari to chase them
away because he is a strong leader. We
need a strong leader now to chase away
Boko Haram or they will chase us away.
“ we need Buhari to be able to fight
insurgency. The federal government has
not been able to do well in the area of
fighting insurgency. It is not because we
have a bad military; it is because they are
not well funded. And even if they were well
funded, maybe in between the period the
money get to the military and the period it
is released some amount of money
disappeared.
“I think corruption is the main issue
because if they are properly equipped
then they can fight insurgency. The
military is planning to kill over 50 military
officers just because they say equip me
properly. I cannot be going to fight a man
who has RPG or GPMG and you give old
very old AK 47 that cannot even shoot,
then you will be risking my life. They have
right to protest on that and you don’t kill
them for that.”
Amaechi, added that the APC presidential
campaign will kick off early next year and
will see the party going round the 36
states with the message of hope.