Ahead of the February 14 presidential election, the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) has adopted the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Muhammadu Buhari as its candidate.
The PDM National Chairman, Bashir Ibrahim, announced this in Abuja on Tuesday while addressing newsmen after meeting with Buhari.
He promised to mobilize all the six million registered members of the party to back Buhari’s bid to succeed President Goodluck Jonathan.
Ibrahim said, “We are here today to present to you the resolution of the National Executive Committee of PDM to support Buhari.
“The NEC of our party, at its meeting of Jan. 22, noted that the party has no presidential candidate for the election of Feb. 14 and had accepted the need to support a candidate.
“The NEC of PDM unanimously resolved to support your candidature for president of Nigeria and calls on all members and supporters of PDM across Nigeria to vote for you in the presidential election.
“As a General in the military, I am sure you are aware of the logic of this strategy. Therefore, we thought that the opposition should have alternative platform and that was why we decided to stay separately as an alternative platform in case something happens.
“Hopefully, nothing will happen between now and Feb. 14 when what the country expects will take place. There should be at least 10 women who will go into matrimonial homes and bring out voters because history has shown that more women vote in our elections than men.
“Therefore, If every canvasser brings out 10 voters, with every ballot box with 500 voters, your votes should be at least 250.
“The other parties will share the remaining votes and that will automatically give you majority in every ballot box.”
Buhari, while responding told his guests “I am extremely pleased to receive you with such an articulated document from your party.
“This is an extremely pleasing day for me to get you on our side. It is a major achievement because I know your capacity to analyse situations and arrive at a credible conclusion.
“We had tried to egg you earlier on through your senior colleague in the match, the Turaki of Adamawa.
“The deafening silence worried me to the extent that it was really a torture for a long time because he did not come back to tell me what you were thinking. Now that you have turned up, I am extremely happy because it is not a mean achievement”.
