Buharis Visits Fashola In Lagos,Presedential Campaign Strenghtens.
The Presidential bid of
the All Progressives Congress chieftain, Major-General Mahammadu Buhari
gathered momentum in Lagos Sunday as he paid a visit to the State Governor, Mr.
Babatunde Fashola SAN, to deliver a special invitation to the formal
declaration of his intention to contest the nation’s 2015 Presidential
Election.
Gen. Buhari, who arrived
the Lagos House, Marina, in company with members of his Team, said he decided
to convey the invitation personally because Lagos is the biggest and most
viable constituency of the APC adding that he would also do same to all the
other Governors in the Southwest.
According to the APC
Chieftain, who was national leader and Presidential Candidate of the Congress
for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011, he would also visit Oyo and Kwara States
and go round to the other States before Wednesday, which according to him, is
the D-Day.
In his short remarks,
Governor Fashola thanked the retired General for the honour of delivering the
invitation himself. He prayed that God would honour the APC Chieftain in his
bid and grant him the grace to realize his ambition.
He declared, “Let me say
that we are pleased to receive you. We feel honoured by your presence and God
will honour you and His grace will continuously be sufficient for you in the
undertaking that you are about to commit to”.
Also present at the
occasion were Lagos State Commissioners for Agriculture and Cooperatives,
Prince Gbolahan Lawal; Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Ademorin
Kuye; Rural Development, Mr. Cornelius Ojelabi and Special Adviser, Youth,
Sports and Social development, Dr. Dolapo Badru. On the team of Maj-General
Buhari were former Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Bello
Masari, former Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timipre Silva and former Minister
of the Federal Capital territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai among others
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