What may happen if APC fields Buhari as its candidate in 2019 - Southern group

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- Southern Mandate of Nigeria has advised President Muhammadu Buhari against contesting in 2019

- The group said President Buhari has failed to deliver on all the campaign promises he made in 2015

- The group accused Buhari of abandoning the people who fought for his emergence as president

Southern Mandate of Nigeria has said President Muhammadu Buhari should rather focus on fulfilling his 2015 campaign promises rather than thinking of contesting in 2019.

The group said not only has the president failed in fulfilling his campaign promises but he has abandoned political leaders who helped him into power, Punch reports.

In a statement by the group, the National Coordinator, Comrade Francis Ikonomwan, in Benin, Edo state said APC might lose to opposition party if it fields Buhari again in 2019.

The statement reads: “President Muhammadu Buhari has not been able to deliver on his campaign promises. What has this administration to campaign within every sector of the economy or is it the fight against corruption that has been swept under the carpet?

“Even the political leaders and the people who fought for his emergence as President today have been abandoned and are all lamenting today.

“There is a total disconnect between the people and the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. Poverty and Hunger is now the order of the day in Nigeria as we speak. It is getting obvious by the day that Nigerians can no longer trust President Muhammadu Buhari with the leadership of this country.

“If APC fields Muhammadu Buhari as its presidential candidate in 2019, we are afraid that Nigerians may stone us at campaign grounds. We may just end up giving the opposition party the presidency in 2019 on a platter of gold.

“However, we wish to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore such call as it is not in the interest of Nigerians.

“President Muhammadu Buhari’s priority now should be how to use the remaining part of his administration to deliver on our campaign promises and do the needful by not indicating interest to contest in 2019.”

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that President Buhari on Friday, October 27, received governors of Kogi, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Bauchi, Kano and Yobe in State House, Abuja.

NAIJ.com gathered that the president met behind closed doors with the northern governors after the Friday Juma'at prayer.

They included Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Nasarawa state governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, Kano state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Yobe state governor, Ibrahim Geidam, Bauchi state governor H.E. Mohammed Abdullahi and Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello.

Are Nigerians truly tired of President Buhari? - on NAIJ.com TV.