NIGERIA Governors Forum (NGF) Chairman and Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari said yesterday in Abuja that the 36 state governors, including those from the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), are working for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election.

The governor, who spoke at the formal public unveiling of the Forward with Buhari Grassroots Mobilisers in Abuja, said the governors were the ones funding the movement and would have been present, but for official state functions, which they are attending.

However, a senior member of the movement stated that two unnamed PDP governors have made financial contributions to the group, which is expected to embark on mass mobilisation of Nigerians for the President’s second term bid.

The Zamfara State governor claimed his colleagues took the decision to support the President’s re-election bid based on his record performance in the last three and half years.

He said: “Mr. President, you have done something that is unexpected, when 27 out of 36 governors could not pay salary, you had to bail out the states or else some of us will have relocated back to Abuja.

“If he can do this irrespective of party, it is time to pay back. Those that stay with Buhari, even his opponents, know his zero-tolerance to corruption.

“It is about three weeks to the election. We need to work harder; we should go back home and gear up to return Mr. President Muhammadu Buhari for a second time.

“You know why governors are backing Buhari? I knew what happened in the past administration and now. The president has given us infrastructure. It has been right to ride behind him. We will do all to support this group.”

APC Deputy National Chairman (North) Senator Lawal Shuaibu said the Forward with Buhari Movement was the brain child of the NGF.

Shuaibu, who is the group’s National Coordinator, said: “It is unique that the sponsors of the campaign group, who no doubt consider themselves among the most critical stakeholders in this important history-making project of returning President Buhari and you to continue in office in 2019 are members of the Nigeria Governors Forum!

“Your excellency will be surprised that I did not say Progressives Governors Forum. Yes, it is not a mistake; The Nigeria Governors Forum, led by Zamfara State Governor AbdulAzeez Yari Abubakar.

“What makes the governors among the most critical stakeholders in this project is that even Mr. President, in constituting his campaign council, appointed them as his state coordinators! No doubt, nobody can coordinate the states more than the governors as they are key to any election in any presidential system of democracy like our own.

“The group named itself ‘Forward With Buhari’ as its mandate is to move with the APC presidential candidate to the Next Level. The main mandate of the group in this campaign your exellencies, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, is to create visibility of the campaign on a sustained momentum as well as create awareness and endear the Brand of Buhari/Osinbajo in the hearts of Nigerian voters.


“They do this through their grass-root mobilisers, who are sponsored to engage people at polling unit levels, by consistently reminding the common man of the laudable achievements of the Buhari administration in the nation’s various sectors that positively touched on the life of not only every ordinary citizen of this country, but we can say every Nigerian.

“These young people have been equipped with a catalogue of most laudable projects initiated by Buhari administration as well as those he completed as a result of the inability of the previous government to do so, largely because the money to complete such important projects was visibly misappropriated.

“Our young people are also adequately informed on the level of progress made in addressing the challenges posed by insecurity all over the country; a situation inherited by President Buhari.

“They are equally fully aware of the change they have experienced in the effort to reduce poverty at the grassroots level, through the various social intervention programmes of the Buhari administration.

“Let me inform you that this group has in its fold, mobilisers, canvassers, sensitisers, social media campaigners, door-to-door voter education experts and many others and are quite ready to commence their activities through the print and electronic media as well as the various social media platforms in a rather unique way.

“The group is also expected to sustain a strategic momentum of campaign, especially whenever Mr. President and yourself visit any state to conduct your campaign rallies and depart. They are expected thereafter to occupy the entire space until the last day of campaign in line with the guidelines released by INEC. For your information sir, the APC youth leaders in every state, at all levels down to the polling units are going to be engaged in this project for coordination at their respective levels.”

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Fake news

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