Buhari is at a loss because he planned for 'war' not victory - Presidency blasts Buhari and APC

Talk is cheap! Nigerians won't accept any excuse for failure - Presidency balst Buhari and APC

The Presidency has insinuated that General Muhammadu Buhari did not plan to win the elections, the reason why he appears hopeless on how to manage Nigeria's multifaceted problems. Buhari has resorted to churning out excuses on a daily basis on why his government may not be able to solve Nigeria's problems as he had promised during the election campaigns. The  Presidency, Wednesday, chided the All Progressives Congress (APC), over its claim that President Jonathan is running the economy aground before handing over, saying “the allegation is immature, reckless and out of tune with the President’s desire and patriotic commitment to a peaceful transfer of power.”

Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Prof. Rufai Alkali, who reacted to APC’s allegation, yesterday, urged the party to talk less and plan more as the nation moves towards May 29 inauguration date.

Alkali reminded APC that “governance is a serious business,” adding that “with the sudden and unexpected concession of victory to them, it appears that the APC is beginning to face the full reality of managing the great challenges of a complex nation.

“Their recent, frequent and unnecessary attacks on the President clearly shows that they are losing their nerves and are beginning to lay foundation to justify their failures in the near future and we want to remind them that Nigerians are not ready to accept any excuses for their failure. They promised to bring change, so they must bring positive change to the well-being of Nigerians and urgently too.

Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali

“Nigerians will recall that shortly after the results of the Presidential elections were announced, President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated a high powered transition committee to plan and organise a hitch-free transition programme for the inauguration of the incoming administration.

Surprisingly, it took the APC more than three weeks to wake up to its responsibility to constitute its own transition committee. How then can they turn round to accuse the government of frustrating the transition programme?

“Since the setting up of the committee, the President and the entire machinery of the Federal Government have been put on the transition mood and all government officers have been giving maximum cooperation to the incoming transition committee.

“By the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Jonathan remains in office up to May 29, 2015 when he formally hands over to the incoming President. The machinery of government cannot be put on hold or frozen because the country is in transition”

The crucial question is this: if Buhari as it now appears did not plan for victory, what on earth did he prepare for? War?

They may have counted on the precedent that incumbents don't relinquish power as an excuse to unleash mayhem on the country.  This was recently alluded to by a notorious warmonger and coup plotter General T.Y. Danjuma, when he met with President Jonathan after the elections. Danjuma who who was among northern soldiers that assassinated his boss Aguiyi Ironsi, said that if former Biafran leader, General Ojukwu (rtd) had behaved like President Jonathan by conceding defeat, the Biafran-Nigerian War would have been avoided. And as was rightly pointed out by the national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance,(APGA) Chief Victor Umeh, the North was planning a war in 2015. 

According to Umeh: ""For Danjuma to say that President Jonathan averted civil war by conceding and added that Ojukwu would have saved Nigeria one year of bloodshed if Ojukwu had done what Jonathan did, he revealed the war they have been planning. 

"If not what has loosing election or not conceding defeat got to do with civil war, is the court not there to redress election fraud, have people not been loosing election?

“For saying that Jonathan saved Nigeria from civil war, Danjuma made the right comment because they have perfected planned on how to fight war, if their brother did not win, that shows they were desperate to take power which they held for over thirty years without other sections of the country complaining, if Jonathan has refused to accept defeat, there would have been war like they said, the North were ready for that from the way they are behaving and what they are saying since after the election"

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