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  • Buhari support group disbanded

    Re-elect Buhari Movement (RBM), one of the support groups that rallied support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election, has formally ended its operations.

    A statement by the group’s convener, Mr. Emmanuel Umohinyang, said this was because its major objective of actualising a second term for the President been achieved.

    The statement reads: “Sequel to the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23, election, the existence of Re-Elect Buhari Movement (RBM), one of the support groups which volunteered to work for the president’s re-election, has officially come to a close.

    “It became expedient to dissolve the group since the main objective of founding the Movement has ended successfully. It is no longer feasible to keep volunteers as a functioning group in the face of the present reality.

    “On behalf of President Buhari, I extend a warm thank you to every member of the Movement, and wish them well in their future endeavours. I urge them to always count themselves as members of the progressive team that worked for the victory of President Buhari.”

    The Re-Elect Buhari Movement was founded a year ago as a volunteer support group with strong interest and determination to work for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari.

  • Buhari support group pledges victory for party

    Southwest grassroots support group for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Presidential Support Committee (PSC), has pledged to mobilise the electorate and win the six states in the region for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    At a media briefing by the leadership of the organisation, its National Coordinator (Southwest) Chief Ronald Ogunleye, a former House of Representative member in 1991 and a political big wig in the Southwest, made the pledge in Lagos.

    He said the structures had been put in place to deliver the region for Buhari/Osinbajo in the forthcoming general elections.

    Read also: Fashola: why Southwest will re-elect Buhari

    Ogunleye said many political strategies he learnt from the late Premier of the defunct Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, were on course to ensure landslide victory that will give President Buhari a return to Aso Rock next February.

    The national coordinator said the PSC, which coordinates over 500 Buhari support groups, would win the six Southwest in a landslide victory for the re-election of President Buhari and Osinbajo.

    The group’s Southwest Publicity Secretary and Director of Media, Doyin Johnson, said PSC had put in place strong structures to showcase President Buhari’s achievements in the last three and a half years.

    He said no other President in the history of Nigeria recorded such outstanding performances.

    Johnson urged Nigerians, especially the youths, to be beware of corrupt elements pretending to be saints in order to fool Nigerians, as they did from 1999 to 2015.

     

  • Omo-Agege: Buhari support group wants Senate to respect court ruling

    The Buhari Support Organization, BSO, Saturday in Katsina urged the senate to respect recent court ruling on suspended Senator Omo-Agege, APC, and Delta North, saying it will promote democracy and rule of law for which the Senate has been known for.

    The group which made the call at a press briefing addressed by its state Chairman, Dr Abba Y. Abdullahi, also frowned at what it called ‘’the ill-treatment’’ meted out to the distinguished senator, said such treatment constitutes an affront  to the law and principles of human right and free speech.

    He said; we wish to appeal to you to urgently implement the court ruling and reverse the suspension of Omo-Agege, stop any further victimization of the Senator and apologize to him and Nigerians for exposing him and his constituency to public ridicule’’

    Recall that on Thursday Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court ruled that the Senate’s decision on Omo-Agege, regarding the suspension, as well as the pattern adopted by the National Assembly, was constitutionally defective.

    Mr Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central, had approached the court, after the Senate’s committee on ethics and privileges began investigating his comments condemning the Senate over the National Assembly’s decision to amend the electoral act.

    In another development, the Buhari Support Organization, BSO, has called on Nigerians to support the re-election bids of both President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina state.

    In a press briefing held in Katsina which was addressed by its state Chairman, Abba Abdullahi, the group noted that President Buhari has recorded several landmark achievements since assuming power, including stabilizing the economy, ensuring food security through improved Agriculture, decimating terrorist activities nationwide, and improving the image relations of the country abroad among others.

    On Masari ,the group noted that the state have never had it so good in the hands of previous past administrations, arguing that additional 4 year for him will consolidate the gains and achievements of his administration.

    He said ‘’gentlemen, the task of making Nigeria great again is the patriotic duty of all Nigerians. Similarly, the task of sustaining the unity of this country is the collective responsibility of all’’

     

  • Group backs Buhari for 2019

    Group backs Buhari for 2019

    The Buhari Support Group on Friday met behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    Speaking with State House journalists at the end of the meeting, the group maintained that the critical to solving the problems facing the nation.

    The President, the group said, should be able to finish what it started by the year 2023.

    The leader of the Buhari Support Group,

    Abu Ibrahim, said “Well, we came here as members of the national committee of the Buhari support group. This 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 meet 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.”

    On whether the Group was in the Villa to convince Buhari to contest the 2019 Presidential election, he said “Well, that didn’t come up actually. We only discussed the programs of the organization and problems of the group. But we didn’t go into the 2019 elections.”

    Asked if the group is going to encourage Buhari to run for reelection, he said “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.”

    The Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, said that the group will continue to support the President and his administration as a group.

    He said “We will continue to identify with and support all the programs that this administration has set forward. And l believe that we have 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 believes 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.

    On areas the President should improve upon towards 2019 elections, he said “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,” he said.

     

  • Group accuses Senate over attempt to blackmail Buhari

    Group accuses Senate over attempt to blackmail Buhari

    A Buhari support group, the Buhari Media Support Group (BMSG), Thursday asked the Senate to put the interested the nation above personal interest and stop blackmailing the President over court summon on its principal officers over forgery allegations.

    In a statement signed by its Coordinator, Muhammad Labbo, and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke and made available to newsmen in Abuja, the group said it was disappointing that the Senate wants to blackmail the president into submitting to its whims and caprices by stampeding him to stop the court summons of principal officers of the Senate to defend themselves against allegation of forgery.

    The group also said that as lawmakers, the senators should be on the same page with the president and his administration to uphold the laws of the land.

    They said further that rather than constitute themselves into obstacles in the quest to reposition the country and ensure obedience to the rule of law, the senators should be seen to show good example to the citizenry.

    The statement said: “we wish to remind the Senate that President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn to an oath to uphold the nation’s constitution, and no attempt should be made by any individual or group to undermine this sacred responsibility.

    “Additionally, it needs to be restated that the summons emanated from the petition raised by some senators over the forgery of the Senate standing order, a ground norm for conducting business in the hallowed chambers of the Senate.

    “The BMSG strongly believes that the individuals mentioned in the summons will have an opportunity in the court to prove their innocence, rather than using the hallowed chambers of the Senate to fan embers of division, and ill-feeling against the President.

    “The BMSG implores that as the representatives of their various constituencies, the senators should always work together with the executive to address the myriad of problems besetting Nigeria.

    “We therefore urge the Senate to immediately withdraw their uncouth language against the president and render an unreserved apology to Nigerians.”

  • Buhari Support Group holds victory party

    The Buhari Support Group has held a victory party to celebrate the triumph of President Mohammadu Buhari at the election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The victory party, which was held in Lagos, had in attendance representatives of the group from the Southwest states.

    According to the leader of the group, Chief Yetunde Babajide, the 7000-member organization, “purposefully set aside the day to jubilate with our mentor, General Mohammad Buhari, over his victory at the election. We are happy that the General was able to secure the ticket to Aso Rock, thereby giving all Nigerians an opportunity for change. We already can feel the change coming, so we decided to roll out the drums and celebrate because our campaign efforts were not in vain.”

    Babajide enumerated the challenges that the group surmounted during the campaign. In her speech, which members applauded, she said: “I am delighted that the General won and that Nigerians won. Also important is that all of us that started this support campaign are all in good health and alive today to celebrate our effort. We give God the glory. Today, we have here in our midst members from all over the Southwest states, committed peopled of integrity. This group has been a voluntary group, an agent of change. We have been self-sponsored and I am happy that we have made it today.”

    The group lamented the sad role that women played in the failed of the Jonathan administration. “Most of the women in Jonathan’s government failed the country,” Babajide said, adding: “Much was expected from them after being given the opportunity to serve in sensitive federal ministries in the government, but they failed woefully.”

    It therefore, called on Buhari to appoint people in the grassroots who are more familiar and ready to serve into his government.