AD candidate backs Buhari

Presidential candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD) Rafiu Salau yesterday dumped his ambition, saying he was stepping down for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

Salau told a news conference in Abuja that he was stepping down from the race and giving his support to Buhari to save the country’s democracy from one party system, which he said encourages dictatorship.

According to him, “the PDP had been in power for 16 years, and it has tried its best. No matter how good the performance of PDP, you need to vote for another party before you can know that you always get a better performance when you create a competition among the parties.

“One party system takes away democracy from the owners and denies them the right to use their democratic system to determine the level of the national development. No matter how good the performance of one party system, it cannot perform 10 per cent of a democratic system with at least two strong parties that make the people to have the opportunity to control their democracy.

“It is your responsibility to  vote for another party that will also execute its programme. This is the only way the country can move forward like other democratic countries that have the control of their democracy. You need to create competition among the parties so they can always go back to their drawing board to redesign their programme for your benefits.

“I urged all of you the 68 million voters, to vote for Gen. Buhari, the candidate of all the democrats who will bring change. Vote APC. Show the world that you are in control of your democracy.”

The National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, praised the AD candidate for identifying with Buhari.

He urged those who are yet to decide on whom to vote for to emulate Salau and support the APC presidential candidate.

Odigie-Oyegun said: “By identifying with Buhari, it means that you must have look at our programmes and our candidate and judged that it is people-oriented and our candidate is more qualify to lead the country.

“I am asking people to judge the administration of Jonathan whether they have really deserved any support of any kind. The PDP government has failed in every aspect. The main business of government today is corruption.”