Former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change in the April 2011 presidential election, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday vowed that he would continue in the struggle to entrench a better Nigeria.
Buhari said in spite of the loss of his appeal against the election of President Goodluck Jonathan at the Supreme Court, he would not give up his fight to ensure that the country became a better place for all Nigerians.
The CPC presidential standard-bearer spoke in his Kaduna office while addressing newly sworn in members of the National Assembly who won on the platform of the party.
He said, “It is not as if I have given up anything. No, I have not given up and my address after the Supreme Court judgement showed that I have not given up.
“I said it 25 years ago that this is the only country that we have. You can get a job anywhere; but your children will ask you one day, when are we going home? So, whatever we do, we better do it well and see what we can do about our country,” he said.
Tracing the travails of the CPC, he said, “By the provisions of the electoral act, the CPC had only four months to register, conduct a congress, organise a convention and primaries before going for the national election. These are the basic things I think that people should judge the CPC with.
“In the whole of the North East and North West, they committed lots of resources to make sure that I was thoroughly undermined and there was confusion within the party. If you were in the position of the PDP and you are the unchallenged champion in over 20 states and you identified one enemy, the CPC, what will you do?”
Earlier, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives and the CPC governorship candidate in Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari who led the lawmakers to Buhari’s office stressed that the party went to court to prove to the people of Katsina State and Nigerians that it actually won the elections in the state.
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