CPC PRESS RELEASE - by: Rotimi Fashakin - "ACN GOVERNORS: Odumakin's views are not Buhari's!"
Our attention has been drawn to a Nigerian Pilot newspaper story of Wednesday, July 17, 2013 captioned: ACN governors are corrupt – Buhari. In the story, the Newspaper's correspondent, writing from Port-Harcourt in Rivers State, stated that Mr. Yinka Odumakin made the sweeping allegations. Therein, the Newspaper alluded to this statement by Mr. Yinka Odumakin as representing General Muhammadu Buhari's. We wish to state categorically that nothing can be farther from the truth! As a matter of fact, Mr. Yinka Odumakin has not functioned as the spokesman for General Muhammadu Buhari since 2011, shortly after the disposal of the CPC's Presidential petition at the Supreme Court!
As a Party, we are not unaware of the mischief embedded in the reporting that was meant to achieve very politically capricious purposes. We do not know whose interests the reporters and the Newspaper are serving. But let it be stated that, much as the said story was embarrassing to our amiable National leader, General Muhammadu Buhari, we wish to disabuse the minds of our friends, teeming supporters and merger partners that this hogwash was a cynical display of unprofessional journalism. For the umpteenth time, we hereby state that the views expressed in the story were Mr. Yinka Odumakin's and not representing that of General Muhammadu Buhari.
Our National leader, General Muhammadu Buhari, respected for nobility and enviable character traits, is far removed from the grotesque characterization of frivolity by the reporters of the Nigerian Pilot Newspapers. We advise the Management of the Nigerian Pilot Newspaper to be guided by enviable journalistic practice in future endeavours.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Rotimi Fashakin (Engr.)
National Publicity Secretary, CPC
As I see it.
Ibrahim Sanyi-Sanyi
http://projectgmb2015.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1
There is no gainsaying the fact that the people of SE region of the country are still very cold and unreceptive to any agenda by Gen. Buhari to capture their votes. That is from the lessons of the civil war and their perception of the general as one who harbors hatred for them. They are always quick to point to his double standard in the punishment meted out to political prisoners from their zone during his time in office and religious differences.
ReplyDeleteHowever there are strategies that can be put in place to win their loyalty. In this connection I want to put forward one suggestion for you to discuss with your principal with a view to developing an action plan in time before the 2015 election begins. This is what I have in mind:
In the spirit of healing the wounds and the bad blood created in the aftermath of the civil war plus years of perceived marginalization by folks from the area, CPC can formulate a strategy to reconstruct the Igboland. This can take the form of building of a city that is in the center of the SE region, by the Nigerian government under the Buhari presidency. This will endear the general to the people and he will no doubt win their support.
Rasheed Ahmed, from the SW Nigeria and currently resident in the US.
My email is: medahras@gmail.com