The
presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011
elections, General Muhammadu Buhari has said that the party alongside other
opposition political parties in the country would be able to dislodge the
Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in 2015.
Buhari disclosed
this in a chat with newsmen in Lafia yesterday, when he paid a courtesy visit on the Nasarawa
State Governor, Umaru Al-Makura at the Presidential lodge just before he
attended the wedding of the former Minister of Works, Hassan Lawal.He said that election malpractices as well as time constraint hindered his party from clinching the presidency in the last general elections.
He also said that CPC was liaising with other political parties other than the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in merger talks that would bring CPC and other opposition parties together ahead of the 2015 elections.
According to him, “Nigerians believe and we believe that the best way to dislodge PDP is for the opposition to come together. And certainly, we are talking, not only with ACN but with other political parties.”
But Buhari who asked rhetorically, “ can we get free and fair elections?” stressed “This is the constraint of CPC;free and fair elections. If we have free and fair elections (in 2015) I think we will arrive home dry.”