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Progressives Congress, APC, presidential hopeful, General Muhammadu Buhari
(rtd), yesterday stormed Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital, urging the
people of Rivers State and the South-South region, to vote for him in the
February 14, 2015 presidential election, should he be picked by his party.
Meanwhile
the former Head of state said he was in the state to formerly
invite Governor Chibuike Amaechi to attend his formal declaration to run on the
platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the presidential election.
Speaking,
Governor Amaechi described the former Head of State as a detribalized Nigerian,
saying “those who describe you as a religious bigot do not know you. Frankly, I
used to think that way when I was in the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, but
all that changed when I joined the APC and have the opportunity to relate with
you very closely as a politician that is truly detribalized in the true sense
of the word. The problem that you have in politics which I have come to observe
is that those who managed your image in the past did not manage it properly.
They allowed the erroneous label of you being a religious bigot to stick. Let me
take myself for example, if you accuse me once, I accuse you 20 times and then
go to the media to tell them my own side of the story.
“As
you can see, most of those who have come to welcome you to government house are
Christians. The percentage of your supporters in Rivers State who are Muslims
are not more than 10 per cent. So, you can now see that the majority of your
supporters here are non-Muslims. It is evident that your support base in Rivers
State is not based on tribal sentiments. As for us, you are a
detribalized Nigerian nationalist.”
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