APC will beat PDP eventually with its MERGER says Buhari

FORMER head of state and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011 election, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, has described the road to the ongoing merger between the opposotion parties in Nigeria as being rough.

Speaking in an interview with the Kaduna-based Liberty Radio, monitored at the weekend, Buhari said “the road to merger is quite rough. The ruling party (the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with its enormous resources and its capacity for coercion, has seen it as a threat and they have said it.

“Personally, I came to realise since 2007 that Nigerians believe that the only way to stabilise the system of multi-party democracy is for the opposition parties that have representatives right from councillors to the National Assembly to come together to deliver their constituencies democratically. This is the only way you can counter PDP’s enormous physical and material influence in the country,” he said.

On the crisis currently engulfing two of the parties involved in the merger process, All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and CPC, Buhari said “though APGA has serious legal problems at the moment, one of its governors has declared for the APC and has attended our convention. He has the courage to come out and identify with the APC, but we have to be careful about APGA, because of the problem between the two factions which has ended up in court.”

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