General Buhari’s Moving Speech At The APC National Convention

My Dear Delegates,
As you gather for our convention, please remember that history, change and the hopes of Nigeria are there with you. They are there to ask you to perform according to your best judgment and patriotic conscience. I also ask you to do the same.
We seek a new Nigeria. It starts with us. It starts today. I have placed myself before you seeking your help to nominate me as your standard bearer for our progressive party, APC.
Personal ambition does not drive me in this regard. I seek to be the next president of our beloved nation because I believe I have something to offer Nigeria at this time of multiple crises. Insecurity, corruption, and economic collapse have brought the nation low. Time is past due that we work together to lift Nigeria up. I am ready to lead Nigeria to its rightful future.
I have always served Nigeria to the best of my ability. I have always tried to give more to the nation than it has given me. This is the principle of service that has guided my public life. Thus, I am not a rich person. I can’t give you a fistful of dollars or naira to purchase your support. Even if I could, I would not do so. The fate of this nation is not up for sale.
What I will give you, and this nation is all of my strength, commitment, sweat and toil in the service of the people. What I can give you is my all.
The PDP has been in power much too long for the little good it has done. For the past six years, Nigeria has walked backwards carrying the weight of PDP’s incompetence on its shoulders.
Due to its broken leadership, Nigeria has been afflicted by a strange illness. We are a great nation riddled by endless crises. Instead of resolving problems, this government multiplies and manufactures them.
PDP cannot stand before us and say things have gotten better under its direction. It has only gotten worse and it’s now time for change.

PDP’s government may say that it needs more time – that what we need now is continuity – but we do not.
What we need now is change!
I know what it takes to achieve real change – I have led our nation before – in times almost as unhappy as these.
I know that to solve our problems we need real leadership, not warm words and empty promises. A leader needs integrity and strength – and an unbending commitment to do what is right.
I know that leaders must not just mouth words about change – they must embody it in their lives and their values.
My love for Nigeria is writ large across my heart and I have spent a lifetime in the service of its people.
Through a long career trying to build a better country for my fellow Nigerians in offices both high and low I have always tried to place my country before myself.
While some who have occupied those same positions have grown mysteriously rich, I still live on my army pension. I own no foreign bank accounts, I own no companies profiting from government contracts.
Why then do I seek office, if not for myself? While others might prefer to stay at home watching their grandchildren grow and leave the battle to others, I still see injustices that need to be righted and I still dream of a New Nigeria.
I am what you see before you – a simple man who believes in serving both God and his country. A man who is impatient for change, who loves Nigeria and seeks to serve it once again.
When I last led this nation I launched a War against Indiscipline – today, I pledge a Battle for Hope.
A battle against the dark forces of corruption and despair that have held our nation hostage to their greed for too long.
We simply cannot afford four more years of PDP’s corruption and the corrosive cynicism that it has bred.
The time for hope, the time for belief, is now.
You cannot trust the corrupt to end corruption.
You cannot trust the selfish and self interested to rule in the best interests of the people.
You cannot trust those who believe hope is a tool of government rather than a human right to plant the seed of belief.
Let’s be clear. This is not a time for continuity. Failure does not deserve continuity. Incompetence does not deserve continuity.
It deserves change; that is what the nation deserves and that is what we will bring.
Make no mistake – as is always the case for those who seek to bring change, it will not come easy.
And today I ask for your votes and support as I make these five pledges to the nation:
I will honestly govern Nigeria in accord with the constitution and rule of law.
I will bring all resources necessary to end poverty through ending corruption, promoting broadly-shared economic growth, investing in our country and creating jobs.
I will tolerate no religious, regional, ethnic or gender bias.
I will return Nigeria to a position of international respect through active and wise foreign policy.
I will select the best Nigerians for posts in my government.
I do not intend to rule Nigeria. I want to democratically govern it with your help. I seek a Nigeria where Christians and Muslims may practice their faiths in peace and security; a Nigeria that is just and where corruption no longer trespasses into our institutions and national behavior and a Nigeria where our diversity could be used for our national prosperity.
Nigeria is our home. Let us now turn it into the great nation we know it can and should be.
I thank you all
General Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR

3 PDP Members Has Sued Obanikoro To Compound His Woes

Immediate past Minister of State for Defence and governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, yesterday urged a Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja to dismiss the case instituted against him by some chieftains of the party.
Three PDP members in the state, Micheal Babatunde Ogun, Suleiman Olayinka Saheed and Wasiu Adeniyi Odusan had sued Obanikoro on the grounds that he was not eligible to contest the governorship ticket of his party.
Joined as defendants in the case were Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the PDP.
Among other reliefs, the applicants had sought a declaration of the court that Obanikoro was not eligible to contest the primaries based on paragraph 4(a) of Part IV of the Electoral Guidelines for Primary Election 2014 of the PDP and his antecedents as particularised in the affidavit in support of the originating summon.
They also sought a declaration that the first respondent (Obanikoro) stood disqualified by virtue of constitutional provisions, including Electoral Act from aspiring for nomination in the governorship primaries of the third respondent or “any registered political party in Nigeria for the purpose of contesting 2015 general elections for governorship in Lagos State or any subsequent elections in Nigeria.”
The applicants sought an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the first defendant from participating in the governorship primaries of the PDP held on Monday “or in the alternative, of any of the registered political parties in Nigeria.”
They also sought for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the PDP from nominating Senator Obanikoro to INEC for the purpose of contesting the 2015 governorship elections in Lagos State or any subsequent elections in Nigeria pending the hearing and determination of the originating summons.
But at the resumed sitting of the court on the matter, yesterday, Obanikoro brought an application through his counsel, Gbenga Ojo, asking the court to strike out or dismiss the originating summons, describing it as an abuse of court process.
He also asked for an order of the court striking out or dismissing the originating summons, which he said did not disclose reasonable cause of action and for any other the court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.
Obanikoro based his objection on the grounds that all the documents relied upon by the applicants are ‘either uncertified public document or documents printed from Internet without authentication of the source or certification.’
Counsel to the applicants, Wahab Shittu, however, told the court that they were prepared to move the originating summon since the matter was slated for hearing yesterday.
But Obanikoro’s counsel said there was no need to proceed into the matter since his client has lost the governorship primary election of the PDP in Lagos.
Justice Alogba, however, referred Obanikoro’s counsel to one of the reliefs sought by the applicants in their originating summons, especially the aspect that urged the court to restrain the former minister ‘from participating in the governorship primaries of the PDP or in the alternative, of any of the registered political parties in Nigeria.’
It was at this juncture that counsel to INEC, Juliana Nnamdi said the electoral commission only received the summons yesterday morning in its Lagos office and needed time to respond, urging the court for an adjournment to enable the commision file necessary papers.
Also, counsel to the PDP, Samson Ozah, told the court that they were yet to file any process as they only got instruction to represent the party yesterday morning.
Justice Alogba adjourned the matter to January 14, 2015 for hearing of the originating summon while urging all parties to file all applications before the adjourned date

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