Photo:Buhari at kaduna rally.Credit-APC Campaign)
By Lola Idahosa, Kaduna
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari(retd) has embarked on his final lap of North-West rally of the party preparatory for the March 28 rescheduled elections with a promise that he will pardon past leaders accused of corruption or any wrongdoing.Buhari however added that he will draw a line and that anybody who involves himself in corruption after he assumes office will face the music. He disclosed this to thousands of his supporters who witnessed the rally in Kaduna state on Wednesday.
Buhari, was earlier denied access to use the Murtala Mohammed Square in the metropolis initially slated as venue of the rally.
The APC Presidential Campaign Council changed the venue to the permanent site of the Kaduna International Trade Fair Complex along Zaria-Kano Expressway, Rigachikun.
There was gridlock along the express way. Those traveling from Kano into the city and those traveling from the state to Zaria, Katsina and other states were stranded for several hours as vehicular movement was halted.
At the rally, Buhari said his administration would not condone stealing.
On the issue of past corrupt leaders facing trials in various court across the country, Buhari said he would allow the court to decide on those cases but whoever that is indicted of corruption between 1999 to the time of swearing-in, he would be pardoned.
“I am going to draw a line, anybody who involves himself in corruption after I assume office will face the music,” he said.
He called on all his supporters to not only to follow him for the clamour for change but also to get their Permanent Voter Cards and vote out the PDP.
He said another four years under PDP would make it 20 years of poverty, corruption, lack if power as well as several challenges militating against the development of the country.
“If you don’t want to continue to suffer, to be enslavd and reduced to mere paupers, then vote APC from the presidential through to even house of assembly candidates in the forthcoming elections,” he said.
“The stealing is continuing, bad leadership is continuing and it is a must that this must change. This is (why) I have provided myself as a sacrificial lamb for the change.
Buhari added that by the time, God’ willing, APC takes over government on May 29, “our schools and tertiary institutions would be properly funded.
He said his administration would provide good portable water, stable electricity supply and that those involved in small scale businesses would grow progressively as a result of stable power supply.
