Stop The Dream Of Becoming President In 2015 Or Beyond! - Wayas Tell Buhari
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| General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd |
The Second Republic Senate president, Dr. Joseph Wayas has asked General
Muhammad Buhari to stop nurturing
the dream of becoming Nigeria’s next
president in 2015. Wayas said its beyond his imagination why a man who led a
military coup, in December 1983 wants to rule now. I have met him on two
occasions and he offered his hand to shake me, which I gallantly ignored, Waya
said.
As Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) begins merger talks with other
opposition parties, Second Republic
Senate president, Dr. Joseph Wayas, has advised its presidential candidate in
2011 general elections, General Muhammad Buhari (retd) to perish the thought
of becoming president in 2015 or beyond.
Wayas said Buhari lacked the democratic credentials to seek election as
president having led a military coup, in December 1983 that sacked the
democratically elected government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari. Wayas, who was
Senate president when the coup plotters struck, told Daily Sun in Abuja that
events that followed their sack had rubbished Buhari’s reasons for
staging the coup.
According to Wayas, several years after, one of the key actors of the Buhari
coup, the late General Sani Abacha, confessed to him that they (the coupists)
were mistaken in the reasons they gave
for sacking the Shagari government. “You know it was General Abacha who
announced the coup. He told me that they made several attempts to pin
something on me. When their investigations came to naught, they released me.
But I had spent several years
in prison, for no reason,” revealed
Wayas.
The deposed Senate president ruled out the possibility of reconciling with
Buhari, insisting there was no basis for that. “Once I went to see Abacha. As
I was entering, he (Buhari) was leaving. When he saw me, he immediately
offered his hand for a handshake. I ignored him. He passed on. Same with me,”
said Wayas. He continued: “The next occasion was when Shagari was launching a
book in Kaduna. Honestly, I don’t know why he (Buhari) chose to attend such a
function.
This was Shagari’s chair. The next was mine, and beside mine was Buhari’s.
Naturally I protested. Of course he tried to greet me. Again, I declined.” The
former Senate president expressed bewilderment that, “the same man who sacked
an elected government, 30 years ago, now wants to be elected president,”
exclaiming, how ironic.
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