NAC adopts Buhari as Presidential candidate

THE National Action Council (NAC), on Saturday, adopted President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as its Presidential candidate for February 16 election.

Its Presidential candidate, Hajia Rabia Hassan Cengiz, who disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja, said the action became imperative due to monumental achievements recorded in the past three and a half years by President Buhari led current administration.

According to her, the NAC has also gone into the electoral process where it has fielded candidates of its own in all the elections with a strong and clear resolve to win all of them.

She explained that the choice of Buhari was borne out of his doggedness to ride the country out of corruption and the fight against insecurity, which bedevilling Nigeria, especially in the Northern part of the country.

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Hajia Hassan Cengiz said the president should be allowed to complete the good work he had started.

She, therefore, appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to see the election as a litmus test of its capacity to conduct elections for the country.

“We also appeal to all other political parties to properly educate their members in the art of electioneering. They must see and take the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as supreme in the course of going through the electoral process.

“They must resist the temptation to go against the law either by violence, financial inducement, bad blood or any form of electoral misconduct that the law frowns at. The election is not a do or die affair, and any political ambition is not worth a single drop of any Nigerian citizen. We must all go to the poll as brothers and sisters. The success of our elections depends on our collective will.” She stressed.