WE WANT HIM AGAIN IN 2019 – TAPLE, GUJOR

President Buhari

WE WANT HIM AGAIN IN 2019 – TAPLE, GUJOR

By Lovins Yakubu

01 December, 2017

Last month, the Buhari Support Group, an Amalgamation of about 189 different support groups that worked for President Muhamadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC) recently hinted that he has no option but to contest the 2019 election. Just few days ago, some prominent politicians in Plateau State also expressed same opinion believing that it is only Buhari that has the capacity to bring Nigeria back on track taking into cognizance his superlative performance as President in less than three years.

Hon. Barrister Robert Taple, the Chairman Plateau State Local Government Service Commission, and Hon. Nanle Gujor, a Senior special Assistant in the Lalong administration have all poured encomium on President Muhammadu Buhari over his performance which they described as “marvellous and milestone achievements” in less than three years of his administration which according to them, are the reasons why every right thinking Nigerian should seek and support his re-election in 2019. Speaking to African Drum in Jos recently, Taple said, “I would want to say that Buhari with the change agenda has done very well knowing full well what Nigerians are. Nigerians are a very difficult set of people and Buhari’s government is doing its best. 

But the truth is that I don't want to believe that the people that surround him have captured this change mantra. I know that Buhari is going to come back in 2019 by the grace of God if he's alive because people actually appreciate what he is doing. How will they expect Nigeria to blossom as it were when the past regime has stolen the whole country blind? If he did not emerge as President, I don't know where you and I would have been today because that is the plain truth that Nigerians don't want to hear. The opposition does not want to hear about that. It is the reason why they are fighting the corruption war. But I want to say that I am so happy that the president is focused”.

On the war against insurgency, Taple said, “anybody who says he is a failure in the war against insurgency is not sincere. These are the enemies of the government because before this man came in, you would hear of bombings in Abuja, Jos and other places, but they have been so restricted to soft targets in the north east zone because they are not as mobile as they used to be. So they are attacking soft targets, and how can someone say that the war on insurgency is a failure? These are the enemies of Nigeria and they will fail because Nigeria will win this war?

Also speaking on the issue, Hon. Nanle Gufor said, “Yes, I have supported and I will continue to support President Muhammadu Buhari. I have passion for his philosophy. He has been able to fight corruption and insurgency to minimal levels. You see, it takes longer time to effect correction or restructure what has been destroyed. As you know, it is easy to destroy but difficult to build. We all know how this country was before 2015 and I actually don’t know what it would have become of it if Buhari had not emerged. I will go with Buhari come rain, come shine because he is one person who does not discriminate” just like Ali the customs boss said some weeks back, Gujor is also of the view that there are cabals in the Buhari administration who have been making frantic efforts to scuttle his good plans for this country.

Barr. Taple

This is even as the President has commended various support groups working for the progress of his administration, saying posterity will reward their sacrifices for the peace, progress and prosperity of the nation.

Few weeks back, Buhari support group led by Abu Ibrahim and Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan that was in the Presidential Villa to meet with him to intimate him on the activities of the group said the group believed in his philosophy. The group also believes Buhari can ensure the “progress, stability and prosperity of the nation.

According to Ibrahim, “Well, we came here as members of the national committee of the Buhari support group. This is an amalgamation of about 189 different support groups that had worked for President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC to win the 2015 general election. We have been holding meetings, discussing the problems of this country, Nigeria. So, we thought it was high time we meet with the President to intimate him about the activities of the group.
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“We discussed with him about the plans to improve the situation in Nigeria. Mr President was very pleased with our programmes”.

Asked why the group was trying to convince him to contest the 2019 presidential election, Ibrahim said, “Well, that didn’t come up actually. We only discussed the programmes of the organisation and problems of the group. But we didn’t go into the 2019 elections”.

Asked if the group is going to encourage him to contest, Ibrahim said, “Yes. Because I believe in his philosophy and I believe he can solve the problems of this nation”.

Lawan, on his part said it is not enough to help a party win election but also to support the government of the day to succeed. “You know it is not enough to help in elections like most of us did. It is important that we continue to support the President and his administration across the nation as a group, this is what we will continue to support the President and his administration across the nation as a group and this is what we will continue to do. We will continue to identify with and support all the programmes that this administration has set forward. And I believe that we have every justification to be happy because, the President campaign on three major pillars of anti-corruption, fighting the insecurity across the country and revitalising the economy of Nigeria. It has been a very good journey so far and also we believe that Mr President and Nigerians have a future beyond 2019. What he has started, by the grace of God, he should be able to complete, up to 2023”.

Asked the areas Buhari could improve upon ahead of 2019, Lawan said, well, we have issues we think that the administration will be dealing with very successfully, now that we have economic recovery and growth plan which encapsulates everything we need to move Nigeria forward. Now that Nigerians have continued to show love for Mr President, I believe that we are going to achieve those things that we have set for ourselves at the moment. I also believe that the future is bright and by the grace of God, by 2019, we would have achieved so much in this administration and Mr President will have no option but continue the good work he has started”

In a statement later released by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said, President Buhari assured group of the judicious use of available national resources for the betterment of all Nigerians.

“I am grateful for your sacrifices. Your work requires a lot of sacrifices both physical and material. I do not think anybody will join this organisation for material reasons. What you are doing is for the nation and not for me as an individual. Therefore, there is no way you can lose because what you are doing is for prosperity”. He said.
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 Also last month, President Buhari supporters, under the aegies of the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO), openly beckoned on him to seek a second term of four years, while opening his campaign office in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The gathering brought together some serving governors, ministers, and other appointees, who called themselves “Buharists”, even as they declared war against cabinet members considered to be working against the president’s interest.

In attendance were Governors Mohammed Abubakar (Bauchi), Yahaya Bello (Kogi) and Simon Lalong (Plateau); Ministers of Information and Culture, Alhaji Ali Mohammed; Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Mohammed Bellow; Defence, Mansur Mohammed Dan Ali; Niger Delta, Pastor UsaniUguruUsani; and minister of State for Health, OsahieEhabire, as well as Chairman of the occasion, Senator Olorunimbe Mamora, among many others.

Head of BSOI in the pre-2015 pools and presently comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hammed Ali, lamented that Buhari’s government has been hijacked by 50 per cent opposition People Democratic Party (PDP) members serving as cabinet members, promising aggrieved supporters that the issue would be looked into. He said: “When we were there working and jumping on the street and reaching every corners, we were shouting change, change for a better Nigeria. Now, the key word is good governance for Nigerians.
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“We must agree that we cannot finish our four years without delivering and leaving something to be remembered for in this country for a long time to come. We have no problem with our president, because he is on course, “But I must confess here that we have been infused by people who were not part of this journey and these people are the one that call the shots today. This is why we are derailing.

“If we had the right people who had the vision and have been there in andout, I believe we would not, I believe we would not be going the way we are going today.

It is my belief that those of us who have been in the trenches all these years to get good governance will surely be sleeping with belly ache every day, especially in the recent past. Every day, when you wake up, there is a story that makes you shiver. We cannot, as a people who have fought and committed everything we had to bring this government to being, sit back and allow things to happen the way they are happening.

“At the end of the day, the fingers will point at us, because we were the ones who went to people and urged them to give us their votes. These people that are calling the shots today were not there and when the chips are down, they will disappear and melt within the system. We are the ones that will be asked to account for what happened.

“Are we willing to face Nigerians and tell them that we have failed? I think this is the time for us to come together, create a system that is very robust enough to fight back and take back government in our hands and ensure that we deliver”. He however, called on all the support groups to “go back to the study room”, adding: “This is a commission, but it is also the beginning of the fight for good governance. We must get back to the trenches, draw our own battle plan and battle line.

“I enjoin you with that same commitment we had in 2015, I implore you to bear with us and commit yourself to a better future for Nigeria”. Lalong who reinforced Ali’s assertions, added that some of them who are governors, too, were not carried along when appointments were made.

Hon. Gujor

“Let Mr President be aware that this is the time to do it, because even as governors, we are also complaining in our various states. We complained in our state that while we are here, sitting down, we hear appointments made and then people start asking, you are the governor, where is this man coming from? But when we turn right and turn left, we don’t know where such man is coming from.

Many people have complained. I’, sure governors have complained that we should be able to know who and who will protect Mr President and his administration, so that when you appoint him and you find him guilty or you find him wanting, hold the governor responsible, because in our various states when we established BSO, we also had BSO.
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“But today when we turned back and find out that they are not enjoying, it means that something is wrong and that is the wrong we have pointed out and we must be very brave to say it”.

Abubakar, who said he was not part of the BSO at the beginning, but believe in the vision of the President, asked the supporters to continue the support, saying; “It is incumbent on us to support the BSO to succeed”. Earlier, despite his silence on the issue, a group of lawmakers, under the aegies of Buhari Support Group (BSG), yesterday said the President has what it takes to lead the country beyond 2019.

Addressing state house correspondents after a closed-door meeting with Buhari at the Presidential villa, leader of the group Senator Abu Ibrahim, said even though the issue did not form the crux of their meeting, members were poised to mobilise massive support for his re-election in 2019.

He said BSG, which is an umbrella platform of about 180 different support organisation that worked for the party’s victory in 2015, believe in Buhari’s philosophy and capacity to solve the myriad of challenges facing the country, as well as facilitate stability, prosperity and progress. Hence the group has been holding series of meetings and discussing the problems of Nigeria and how to improve the situation in the country.

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