The Buhari Support Group has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari will have no option but Contest the 2019 presidential election.
Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan and leader of the Buhari Support Group, Abu Ibrahim, who lead members of the Buhari Support Group to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Friday, insisted that President Buhari has ” performed creditably well” to guarantee his return to power in 2019.
The Buhari Support Group, ( BSG) made of about 189 different groups that worked for the election victory of the President and the All Progressive Congress (APC) in 2015, are regrouping to throw their weight behind the President ahead of the 2019 Presidential election.
According to Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, the group is coming together to muster support for the President’s development programs to ensure its success.
“Well, you know it is not enough to help in elections like most of us did. It important that we continue to support the President and his administration”
As a group, across the nation, this is what we will continue to do. We will continue to identify with and support all the programs that this administration has set forward”
He averred that the group has “every justification to be happy because, the President campaigned on three major pillars of anti- corruption, fighting the insecurity across the country and revitalizing the economy of Nigeria”
” It has been a very, very good journey so far and also believe that Mr. President and Nigerians have a future beyond 2019. What he has started, by the grace of God, he should be able to complete, up to 2023″
“Well, we have issues we think that the administration will be dealing with very successfully, now that we have economic recovery and growth plans which encapsulates everything we need to move Nigeria forward.
“Now that Nigerians have continued to show love for Mr. President, l believe that we are going to achieve those things that we set for ourselves at the moment. I also believe that the future is bright and by the grace of God, by 2019, we would have achieved so much in this administration and Mr. President will have no option but continue the good work he has started”
Also speaking on the issue, Abu Ibrahim, noted that the group is an amalgamation of about 189 different support groups that had worked for President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC to win the 2015 general election. We have been holding meetings, discussing the problems of this country, Nigeria. So, we thought it was high time we met with the President to intimate him about the activities of the group”
“We discussed with him about the plans to improve the situation in Nigeria. Mr President was very pleased with our programs”
Ibrahim who stated that the issue of the 2019 Presidential election did not feature in their discussions with the President, said the group “only discussed the programs of the organization and problems of the group. But we didn’t go into the 2019 elections.”
Pressed further, he declared that he was in support of Buhari contesting the 2019 Presidential election
” Of course l will. Because l believe in his philosophy and l believe he can solve the problems of this nation. He can ensure the Progress, stability and prosperity of this nation” he said.
Tony Ailemen, Abuja
