By Marvellous Nyang
• Re: Buhari-Osinbajo Support Groups Apologise to Nigerians, dump APC
The Buhari Osinbajo Solidarity Front (BOSF) has condemned the recent apology to Nigerians and defection to the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of support groups who claimed to be loyal to President Muhammed Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, calling, their claims “untrue and baseless.”
Speaking for the group, Alhaji Ado Baba, the National Chairman of Buhari Osinbajo Solidarity Front, in a statement signed and released on Thursday, February 23, 2023, said, “We wish to make it clear that the actions of these groups are not only misguided and solely for their selfish interests, but also unfortunate, as they do not reflect the true spirit and aspirations of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.”
Read the statement in full below:
The Buhari Osinbajo Solidarity Front (BOSF) wishes to condemn and correct the recent actions of some groups that claimed to be loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.
We categorically state that the recent defection of these groups from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and their subsequent apology to Nigerians do not in any way represent the views of the real support groups that are genuinely loyal to both the President and the VP.
Their claims are therefore untrue and baseless.
At any rate, what is the motive behind their desperate clinging to the names of the President and Vice President in their political gamble if not crass opportunism and shameless anticipation? A genuine approach would have been the exercise of their free will in making their political choices even if at the 11th hour without the names of Buhari and Osinbajo. These so-called groups could have simply adopted the names of their preferred candidate in their new adventure.
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We wish to make it clear that the actions of these groups are not only misguided and solely for their selfish interests, but also unfortunate, as they do not reflect the true spirit and aspirations of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
We urge Nigerians to disregard the actions of these groups, as they do not represent the true loyalty and support that both the President and the Vice President enjoy across this country.
Supporters of the Buhari/Osinbajo presidency have no need to apologise or dump the All Progressives Congress. As the VP said recently when he represented the President at the presentation of the PMB Legacy Portal the millions of beneficiaries of several people-friendly schemes of the administration such as the Social Investment Programmes (SIP), among others, “are real people provided with a springboard to do more for themselves and their communities; real people inspired to hope and believe that Nigeria can be positively transformed in our lifetime.”
According to him “I believe I speak the mind of the President when I say that our administration considers it a privilege and an honour to serve the people of our great nation as we have done in the last eight years. These accomplishments are the hard-won dividends of the social contract we entered into with the Nigerian people when we came into office in 2015.”
Here as stated above is where we stand. Well-meaning Nigerians should continue to ignore pretenders and political carpet beggars whatever names they call themselves.
Signed
Alhaji Ado Baba
National Chairman
Buhari Osinbajo Solidarity Front
February 23rd, 2023
