Press Statement
The Buhari Campaign
Organisation hereby declares its commitment to the highest standards of decency
and probity as we formally open our media and communication office to provide
honest, credible and responsible information to the general public through the
platforms provided by the country's vibrant media organisations.
While we congratulate the old
media for the maturity and capacity displayed in integrating new media and
technologies into their operations, experience has shown that the traditional
skill of gate keeping crucial to the production of credible and accurate
information has become a major challenge in the news dissemination process.
This is why we endorse Nigerian
Media Code of Election Coverage and pledge to co-operate with all media
stakeholders to ensure that the objectives of the coverage, including the need
to educate the people on the electoral process, provide informed choices, treat
journalists with respect and understanding, are attained.
Since we cannot blame
the messenger for the message, the situation calls for the exercise of strong
restraint in the issuance of messages by all interested parties. We
challenge our competitors and their sympathizers to produce and propagate only
the messages that will enlighten and ennoble the process of choosing the
president of the world's most populous black nation.
We, at the Buhari Campaign
Organisation, hereby pledge to conduct a campaign focused on the issues which
will qualitatively uplift the average Nigerian from poverty to prosperity and
bring hope to a populace seeking refuge from uncertainty. The issues of
electricity generation and distribution, poverty elimination, eradication
of corruption, mass employment and security of lives and property are
going to form the focal points of our campaign.
These issues have no
ethnic colour. Poverty afflicts the old and the young. Unemployment has no
political affiliation. Insecurity damages the economy precariously. Insecurity
may be more prominent in the North East in the wake of the Boko Haram
insurgency but the reality is that Nigerians generally have never been as
endangered as they now are.
Our responsibility to the
Nigerian people in this campaign is to articulate how to rescue Nigerians
from the present danger based on the manifesto of the All Progressives Party.
Our responsibility is to demonstrate that General Muhammadu Buhari has
the personal virtues of discipline, honesty and transparency to inspire
the change that is imminent.
Our responsibility is to communicate how the
military skills acquired by Muhammadu Buhari, the generals' general in a
publicly acknowledged distinguished career has made him the most appropriate
contestant in the 2015 election with the technical and technocratic skills to
crush the rampaging insurgency and bring peace to a nation losing a protracted
guerrilla war.
Our responsibility is to make the voters aware that it is indeed
historically divine that socio-political forces that were at loggerheads before
have now resolved their differences because of the love of Nigeria and have put
forward a man of impeccable credential and unparalleled commitment to the
national cause for election.
The Buhari-Osinbajo ticket,
brings together two institutions which defend the national patrimony and
maintain internal harmony. While the military defends the state from
aggression, the judicial system defends the law which establishes and maintains
the State.
Indeed the intellectual, political and spiritual antecedents of
Professor Yemi Osinbajo provides the complimentary combination and
collaboration that the next Nigerian administration needs- a government that
respects the rights of its citizens and enforces their duty to the State.
No nation facing such
gargantuan problems of poverty, lack of power, unemployment, corruption and
insecurity offered the chance of a rescue by history throws away such a rare
chance. It is our conviction that Nigerians, in their hearts, have chosen the
way forward by supporting change.
Wherever we go, whoever we turn to, we are
embraced by millions of our fellow countrymen who see the hope that we
represent. They are visibly and naturally excited by the prospect that at last
comes a man who shall take their country back from the precipice.
And so shall it be as they
celebrate their love for their country on the unique Valentine's Day.
Signed
Dele Alake
Director,
Media & Communications
Phone-
08027787474 E-mail: alakedele@yahoo.com
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