PRP Adopts Buhari for presidency
From MUSTAPHA SAYE, Kaduna

The People Redemption Party (PRP) has adopted the all Nigeria peoples party (ANPP) presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari to contest the 2007 presidential elections as the candidate supported by the PRP.
The national chairman of people Redemption party (PRP), Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa disclosed this, Saturday, at Gamji Park Kaduna, during the national convention of the party, saying that his party (PRP) had always been open–minded on the question of strategic alliance between political parties and political associations.
He said, this in itself, is not surprising, since it has been the political tradition of its progenitors, noting that the NEPU/ PRP had during the Second Republic participated in such arrangement.
Alhaji Balarabe Musa explained that, it is on the record that, the NEPU collaborated with the NCNC, during the independence struggle to ensure Nigerian’s disentanglement from the grips of colonial rule, adding that “NEPU stalwarts and activists, such as Habib Raji Abdallah and Sa’ad zungur served respectively as the Secretary and National secretary of the Zikist movement and the NCNC in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
He further explained that, during the 1963 federal elections, the NEPU was an active member of the United Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and similarly in the Second Republic, the PRP was the main force behind the formation of the progressive Parties Alliance (PPA), pointing out that, “electoral alliances are an integral part of the political struggles of our great party”.
According to him, there are three main justifications for the PRP’s opened political and electoral alliances which we agreed to in order to promote the national interest, when such interests are threatened in particular by the antics and pranks of unconscionable politicians and political groupings that have little or no concern for the sovereign interest of Nigerian people.
Secondly, according to him, PRP agreed to partake in and sometimes even initiate such alliance for the purpose of ensuring their own collective security as a political party and as a political tendency and movement.
Thirdly, under the present difficult terrain of money politics and the revenue appetite of the moneyed parties for swallowing weaker and much lesser–endowed, one’s participating in such alliance is one way of ensuring that,” we remain relevant to the political process”.