- SGF Boss Mustapha urges southeast region to back Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid
- Ekweremadu tasks the president on free, fair and credible elections
The secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has said that re-electing President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 would be of benefit to the quest by the southeast to produce the president of the country.
The Sun reports that Mustapha made the statement at the weekend, at a reception organised for the permanent secretary, cabinet affairs office, Georgina Ehuria, by the former governor of Abia state, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu.
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The SGF told Kalu that the shortest path to an Igbo presidency is for Buhari to complete his tenure.
“You made allusions to the fact that the South East would support Buhari. Let me confirm to you that for any thought of Igbo presidency, this is the shortest part. I have been in this game in the last 35, 37 years. I can attest to it. I know what it is, I know the permutations. I know what is on ground and I am an election manager.
“I know how you can commute, how you can fix the figures and how they come and arrive at the destination. And I can tell you without any fear, without any iota of doubt that the shortest path to an Igbo presidency is for Buhari to complete his tenure and now engage the Igbo nation in a decisive move," Mustapha said.
Meanwhile, the deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure his administration conducts a credible, free and fair election in 2019.
He also advised the president to be prepared to accept in good faith, the outcome of the election should he and his party, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) fail to win next year’s presidential contest.
This was even as he decried the sit-tight syndrome in Africa, which he described as a grave danger to African democracies.
He gave the admonition while speaking at the parliament of the United Kingdom (UK), where he delivered a lecture titled “African Politics: The Dynamics and Lessons.”
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Source: Naija.ng