Muhammed Buhari at the CPC convention today
By SaharaReporters, New York
General Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that
members of the opposition will no longer be
intimidated by the Federal Government.
The retired general, who spoke at the national
convention of the Congress for Progressive Change
(CPC) in Abuja today, said gone were the days
when the government would instigate crisis
during an election to scare away members of the
opposition.
From now on, he underlined, not only would votes
be counted, the opposition will not allow the
government to deceive Nigerians that it is not
behind election crises it has created.
"We will no longer be intimidated", he stressed.
He pointed out that Nigeria is already drifting
hopelessly and that anarchy is visible in some
parts of the country, with the government unable
to find any meaningful solution.
He drew attention to some areas of the nation he
described as “virtual war zones” in a country
supposedly at peace, with entire local
governments in the North-East now no-go areas
even to representatives of constituted authority.
"Marauders of every description armed to the
teeth with all manner of sophisticated armaments
roam the national landscape with total and
murderous impunity,” he said. “The patience of
this nation and the various communities within it
has been severely tried and stretched to its limits.
And there is no end in sight.”
He regretted that anarchy is knocking on the door
of many sections of this country while the Federal
Government has not demonstrated it has the good
sense to understand what is going let alone the
competence to check it.
“The nation is hopelessly adrift,” General Buhari
said. "There is unprecedented fall in the nation's
standard and an astronomical rise in the standard
of dying."
Taunting President Goodluck Jonathan's
Transformation Agenda, he observed that it has,
within the space of three years, transformed the
country into a veritable wilderness “Where
verything that should work, doesn't; where
everything that can get broken, has".

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