Former head of State and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gen Muhammadu Buhari was yesterday refused landing permit at the Makurdi Airport and his planned visit to Benue State cancelled.
Buhari, a former head of state was to visit the agrarian state to engage opposition stakeholders, delegates and party supporters ahead of the party’s primaries.
Yesterday, the Makurdi Airport situated in the NAF Base, located along Makurdi-Gboko expressway was crowded by ardent APC supporters who converged at the place to welcome the presidential aspirant. They had arrived the airport as early as 8.am.
Strangely, after waiting at the airport for several hours, some of the APC officials suddenly informed the supporters that Buhari will no longer visit the state. They claimed that the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) had ordered that the flight conveying the opposition leader should not be granted landing permit.
The opposition chieftains and supporters who thronged the airport in their hundreds were disappointed. They angrily dispersed from the place as soon as they heard the news, wearing long faces.
It was alleged that the denial of the landing right as directed by FAAN officials was induced by the ruling PDP and that the action was carried out to prevent him (Buhari) from discussing with Chief Samuel Ortom, who is preparing to dump the PDP. Effort to contact FAAN and PDP officials proved abortive at the time of filing this report.
However, the state chairman of APC, Comrade Abba Yaro who spoke to newsmen yesterday confirmed the situation. He said “Our presidential aspirant, Buhari was to visit the state to discuss with delegates and party supporters ahead of the primaries. He actually left Bayelsa for Benue and don’t forget, he was initially granted landing by the airport authorities in the morning, just for them to suddenly deny his flight to land when the supporters were already waiting to receive him.”
…Says PDP Killing Nigeria With Corruption, Insecurity
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari yesterday accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of gradual destruction of the nation with corruption and impunity.
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari,who was speaking yesterday in Yenagoa, during a visit to the Bayelsa State Secretariat of the APC, called on Nigerians to vote out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and end the era of corruption that has threatened to destroy the nation.
Buhari,who arrived the APC secretariat and was welcomed by a mammoth crowd of supporters and party faithfuls,said the problem with the nation’s democracy is the presence of massive corruption perpetuated by the ruling PDP,”What is wrong with Nigeria?What is wrong is massive corruption!aAnd the commentators have said it and wrote about it,and I believe them,if we don’t kill corruption in Nigeria,corruption will kill us.”
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari,who announced that his visit to Bayelsa State was to interact with the State Delegate of the Party ahead of the December 10 Presidential Primaries of the APC,noted that though the people of Nigeria had made the mistake of voting into power the ruling PDP in the 1999 and are paying dearly for it,such mistakes can be corrected by voting out the PDP in 2015.
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