SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, (THEWILL) – A member of the National Executive Committee of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Mohammed Yakubu, has declared that the north will vote President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 even if he is on a wheel chair.
Speaking in an interview with The Sun, Yakubu said it was improper for people to mount pressure on Buhari to resign because he is battling with his health insisting that it isn’t fair.
He however, thanked Nigerians for rendering prayers on behalf of Buhari saying that the kind of support received by the President during his illness is unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.
Yakubu’s ACF was part of the coalition of Northern groups that ordered Igbos living in the North to leave on or before October 1, 2017.
“I will not advise him to resign. You will recall that when former President Olusegun Obasanjo was asking the then ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to resign, I granted an interview to your newspaper, as the youth leader of Northern Union, telling Nigerians that even on a wheelchair, we will support Yar’Adua to rule the country. Unfortunately, he died,” he said.
“I am also making the same statement today that Buhari should not resign, even if he is on a wheelchair, north and people of Nigeria will vote him in 2019. I am not just associating myself with Buhari, I am advocating for good governance under President Buhari.
“I don’t think that it is proper for anybody to humiliate Buhari out of office by mounting pressure on him to resign. It is not fair; it is not just, it is not proper.
“We have election timetable if you don’t like him, vote him out during the election, but I will not support anybody that will want to humiliate the president out of office. As long as he is alive, it is not right to demand of him to resign.
“I must first of all thank Nigerians for their support and prayer for President Muhammadu Buhari, their support and prayer have been unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.
“There is no Nigerian leader that has received this type of support and prayer in our recent history. I must first of all thank them. The president’s health challenge is something that can happen to anybody.
“God forbid bad thing, supposing the president dies today, there is nothing anybody can do. God has appointed a time for every human being to be born and to die. For now, we will continue to pray for our president and wish him quick return to the country. And I will continue to appreciate Nigerians who are praying and supporting the president.”
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