By Henry Umoru
ABUJA — As the national prepares for the April Presidential elections, the Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) said yesterday that he came out for the position to save Nigeria.

The former military head of state who vowed that he would not bow to pressure to drop his running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare, however, urged all members, supporters and well wishers of the party to rally round Bakare for the election, adding that his name emerged after a very serious brainstorming exercise.

According to him, the choice of Bakare was among others designed to put to rest insinuation of possible Muslim-Muslim ticket on the path of CPC for the April presidential poll as well as erase the religious fundamentalist created about him.

The Presidential candidate who stressed that Bakare would bring to bare his wealth of experience, both as a pastor and as a social crusader.

Speaking through the Secretary, Contact and Mobilisation Committee of CPC, Mr Osita Okechukwu, Buhari said the presidential aspirant and his running mate would soon address a world press to officially unfold the party’s manifesto and its programme for re-engineering Nigeria, beginning from May 29 this year.

According to Okechukwu, with Pastor Bakare, Buhari and the leadership of the Party believe that he would also use his influence within the Christian community in the south-west and Nigeria in general to support the plan by CPC to create a new Nigeria, where ethnic and religious considerations would not longer be welcome in the government circles.