Ex-minister Gana joins presidential race, reveals mission

A former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana, has joined the host of other Nigerians seeking to wrest power from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

Gana, who expressed dismay over the apparent failures of President Buhari to address the troubling security issues in the country, said “any government that cannot secure the lives of Nigerians is not worthy of being called a government.”

According to the former information minister, the burden of how to salvage the country from bad leadership led to his resolve to seek to become the president.

He made this known to newsmen and his supporters in Abuja on Thursday at the national secretariat of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), where he purchased the party’s N1 million expression of interest form.

“With the utmost sense of responsibility and honour, I hereby express my well – considered interest to aspire as the Presidential candidate of the SDP with a view to ultimately contesting in the forthcoming Presidential election in 2019.

“Being a patriotic and committed democrat who has carried a burden for the rapid , effective and even development of our dear nation for decades , I am deeply concerned with the very real prospect of Nigeria imploding unless our great party comes to the rescue with a God – fearing , dynamic leadership.

“Nigeria is facing an existential threat, the seriousness and proportion of which have never been witnessed since the end of the civil war,” Gana said.

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Assuring that he will efficiently tackle the security challenges in the country if elected president he said, “The security of the lives of the people is the primary purpose of the government, according to the constitution. Any government that cannot secure the lives of Nigerians is not worthy of being called a government.

“Therefore, APC, Nigerians are tired of you. The SDP is coming, the SDP will win and the SDP will govern well and Nigeria will be at peace.”

Also promising to restructure Nigeria, Gana who was a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said that the only way Nigeria could realise its full potential is to restructure the country and make sure that power was devolved to the states.

 

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