Withdraw from presidential race, Ndigbo urges Buhari

*Gen. Buhari with Lagos Gov, Babatunde Fashola and the General Overseer, RCCG, Pastor Adeboye at Thanksgiving Service organised by Lagos state recently

The Ndigbo Cultural Society of Nigeria (NCSN) has advised the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) to withdraw from the February 14 presidential contest with immediate effect.

NCSN President, Chief Udo Udeogaranya, gave this advice in a statement made available to The Mega StarNews.

According to Udeogaranya, “If the former Head of State has any atom of nationalism, gratitude to the country, love for the nation and progress of our dear country, Nigeria, he should tow the path of statesman and extricate himself from the deceits of the APC leaders and withdraw with immediate effect from the presidential race.”

He noted that with the permutations of some international communities, the strikes of terror against Nigeria and the internal wounds in the nation, it behooves on any Nigerian with the interest of the nation at heart, to do all that is within their powers to save Nigeria from the ill wishes of 2015.

“We advise Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) to learn wisdom from the East that have allowed and supports their brothers from the South-South to complete their tenure of eight years, as we all have allowed the South-West to have their uninterrupted eight years.” Udeogaranya said.

While pointing out that economically, Nigerian government depends largely on oil exports and import duties, in which both are derived from South Eastern soil and the people of South Eastern Nigeria, he stated that it accounts for even more developments around the nation than the South Eastern Nigeria.

“Therefore any candidacy that may spill ill feelings to that section of the country, may not be favourable for the nation and should rather be jettison for the good of the nation.

“Nigeria owes the South-South people another four years to complete their full tenure, as this is their first time presiding over the nation, which they have fed for decades and four years in a nations life is nothing.

Udeogaranya said the idea of getting power from the centre to access other people’s resource should be eschewed as regionalism as only full resource control would bring lasting solution to many of the nation’s problems and NCSN still calls for a sovereign national conference.