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Nigeria's ruling party promises to support president-elect Buhari

Xinhua, April 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nigeria's ruling party will support the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari's government for improved development of the country, a party official said has said.

Olisa Metuh, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson told a news conference in Abuja, the nation's capital city on Wednesday that the PDP would be an opposition that would offer alternative programs and ideas to the new government and would not be involved in abuses.

"We promise that in the course of this, we will work with the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to move the country forward as a nation," he added.

"We will cooperate with him in terms of promoting the values of our country and progress all indices for national growth and foster national unity and the development of the country and its democracy," he said.

"We will not engage in any activity that will destabilize the nation or the polity or distract the President-elect from offering Nigerians good leadership," the PDP mouthpiece told reporters.

Metuh said the party was adopting the position because the interest of Nigeria was more important than that of a political party or any individual.

The PDP spokesman, however, said that being in opposition was not being out of power, adding that the party would return to power in 2019.

He stressed that while in the opposition, PDP would conduct its affairs with all decency, maturity, civility and the forthrightness it could muster.

He said the PDP would be the ideal opposition it had always wanted the All Progressive Congress (APC) to be, stressing that with cooperation, the two parties would salvage the country's democracy.

According to him, the legacy of the PDP in its 16 years in government was the sustenance of democracy, which, he said the party would do everything to sustain. Endi