No substance in Ohanaeze N’digbo’s Atiku endorsement – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said the split within Ohanaeze Nd’Igbo over its reported endorsement of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, did not surprise him, just as it lacks substance.

Speaking at a meeting with a group of South-east leaders at the State House, Abuja, Buhari said the moment the resolution was announced, he got calls from well-meaning leaders from the region asking him to disregard it as it was without any substance.

The president in a statement through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said, “From that moment, I knew that the resolution would not stand, and alas, there it was.”

Buhari said his party, the APC, got it right from the very beginning that the major problems of the country were mainly on security, corruption and the economy.

“We have done so much. Given the chance, we will do more. Given every chance, we will tell Nigerians where we were in 2015 and what we have achieved up to now,” he said.

Leaders of the delegation, Engineer Emeka Ekwuosa and the National Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, told Buhari that the Igbos and South-easterners generally understand the good things he is doing for Nigeria which they said, had unfortunately been misunderstood. They promised to mobilise support for him in the south-east, saying his re-election would be a national consensus.