{"id":13497,"date":"2018-11-16T18:37:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13497"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:37:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:37:56","slug":"ohanezes-backing-of-atiku-lacks-substance-says-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13497","title":{"rendered":"Ohaneze’s backing of Atiku lacks substance, says Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By GARBA SHEHU,\u00a0<\/b>Senior Special Assistant to President (Media & Publicity)<\/p>\n

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the split within the Ohanaeze\u00a0 Igbo socio-cultural group over its reported endorsement of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, did not surprise him.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a meeting with a select group of South-east leaders on Friday, at the State House, Abuja, President Buhari said that the moment the so-called resolution was announced, he got calls from well-meaning leaders from the region asking him to disregard it as it was without any substance.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cFrom that moment, I knew that the resolution would not stand, and alas, there it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Buhari said that his party, the All Progressives Congress, got it right from the very beginning that the major problems facing the country were mainly on security, corruption and the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have done so much. Given the chance, we will do more.\u00a0 Given every chance, we will tell Nigerians where we were in 2015 and what we have achieved up to now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not get tired of speaking about the golden opportunity Nigeria lost during 16 years of the PDP.\u00a0 We earned money, which we didn\u2019t use,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state of infrastructure we inherited was terrible \u2013 no roads, the railway was killed and power.\u00a0 They lacked conscience because anybody with conscience will not do what they did.\u00a0 We will report them to Nigerians.\u00a0 Let anybody lead this country but not the PDP.\u00a0 They were so reckless with the resources of the country,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you ruin the economy, send your children abroad to get education, won\u2019t they come back?\u201d he asked, adding: \u201cI said it 30 years ago that this is the only country we have.\u00a0 We must stay here and salvage it together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The leaders of the delegation, Engineer Emeka Ekwuosa and the National Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, informed President Buhari that the Igbos and South-easterners generally understand the good things he is doing for Nigeria which they said, had unfortunately been misunderstood.<\/p>\n

They promised to mobilise support for him in the south-east, saying that his re-election will be a national consensus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By GARBA SHEHU,\u00a0Senior Special Assistant to President (Media & Publicity) President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the split within the Ohanaeze\u00a0 Igbo socio-cultural group over its reported endorsement of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, did not surprise him. Speaking at a meeting with a select group of South-east leaders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}