Following the March 28 victory secured by the country’s major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party has revealed what Nigerians did by electing General Muhammadu Buhari as the president.
Muhammadu Buhari is the new president-elect and winner of the 28 March 2015 presidential election
The party made the revelation in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by its national publicity secretary, Lai Mohammed, a copy obtained by Premium Times.
The APC said Nigerians had made history through the ballot box by electing Buhari as their president.
Mohammed further explained that by voting into power someone not in government, Nigerians have reclaimed their power at the polls.
“I think it’s first of all victory to all Nigerians. We are all here on the verge of history. This is the first time in the political history of Nigeria that a government in power would lose an election via the ballot box. This also sends a strong message to the incoming government that the people have reclaimed their ballot. People have reclaimed their rights and they would punish any government who fails to do their expectations,” he said.
The APC’s national secretary said Buhari’s victory across the zones was due to the selflessness of the party leaders, adding that the merger of various political parties was also another reason for the victory.
“Buhari won across the zones. We thank our leaders who thought it fit to come to a merger. Before now, we were in ANPP, CPC and ACN but our leaders made that bold sacrifice, dropped their personal ambitions and agreed at a merger and gave us a broader platform. A platform that was national in outreach and for the first time in Nigeria, we had a truly pan-Nigerian political party,” he said.
Mohammed also stated that the victory of the former head of state was made possible because of the issues that defined the election.
“The issues that defined Buhari’s win across the zones were corruption, ineptitude, bad economy and insecurity and in him they (electorate) found these qualities,” he said.
In a related development, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, said: “We are all full of thanksgiving to God about the happenings in the country.”
It is now obvious that the All Progressives Congress was sure of victory because as tension brewed on Tuesday, while the country waited for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to announce the winner of the presidential poll, the opposition party in a statement told its supporters to remain calm.
The electoral umpire said the presidential candidate of the APC won the polls with 15,424,921 votes, or 53.95%, of the 28,587,564 total valid ballots cast.
Muhammadu Buhari is the new president-elect and winner of the 28 March 2015 presidential election
The party made the revelation in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by its national publicity secretary, Lai Mohammed, a copy obtained by Premium Times.
The APC said Nigerians had made history through the ballot box by electing Buhari as their president.
Mohammed further explained that by voting into power someone not in government, Nigerians have reclaimed their power at the polls.
“I think it’s first of all victory to all Nigerians. We are all here on the verge of history. This is the first time in the political history of Nigeria that a government in power would lose an election via the ballot box. This also sends a strong message to the incoming government that the people have reclaimed their ballot. People have reclaimed their rights and they would punish any government who fails to do their expectations,” he said.
The APC’s national secretary said Buhari’s victory across the zones was due to the selflessness of the party leaders, adding that the merger of various political parties was also another reason for the victory.
“Buhari won across the zones. We thank our leaders who thought it fit to come to a merger. Before now, we were in ANPP, CPC and ACN but our leaders made that bold sacrifice, dropped their personal ambitions and agreed at a merger and gave us a broader platform. A platform that was national in outreach and for the first time in Nigeria, we had a truly pan-Nigerian political party,” he said.
Mohammed also stated that the victory of the former head of state was made possible because of the issues that defined the election.
“The issues that defined Buhari’s win across the zones were corruption, ineptitude, bad economy and insecurity and in him they (electorate) found these qualities,” he said.
In a related development, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, said: “We are all full of thanksgiving to God about the happenings in the country.”
It is now obvious that the All Progressives Congress was sure of victory because as tension brewed on Tuesday, while the country waited for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to announce the winner of the presidential poll, the opposition party in a statement told its supporters to remain calm.
The electoral umpire said the presidential candidate of the APC won the polls with 15,424,921 votes, or 53.95%, of the 28,587,564 total valid ballots cast.
