Presidency: Gaya wants Atiku’s backing for Buhari
By ALIYU YUSUF

VICE President Atiku Abubakar has been called upon to support and assist the candidature of General Muhammadu Buhari in his presidential bid in the interest and progress of the country.
Former civilian governor of Kano state, Arc. Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya told Daily Triumph that in spite of party differences, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida had been assisting General Buhari in his political struggle as such there is a need for vice president Abubakar to do same for the betterment of the North and the country in general.
“Let the three of them put their heads together and support Buhari so that the Presidency will come to us for better,“ he explained.
Gaya further observed that if Vice President Atiku should render that support to General Buhari, the accord between All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Action Congress (AC) would work well.
Reacting to the face-off between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar, the former governor described the scenario as a pointer to political doom for the country, noting that if the president could denigrade himself to fighting his vice or the vice dis-respecting him then this would be a set back to democracy in the country.
Arc Gaya who is also aspiring for a senatorial seat for the Kano-South foresees PDP as a party failing to survive again, giving the optimum that the ANPP will by the Grace of God take over next administration for the betterment of the country in 2007.
On the forthcoming general election which is past approaching, he called on the people in the state to continue to pray for the sustainability of democracy and the enhancement of the governance by electing General Buhari as their president.
He further called on all eligible voters to protect their votes by using them wisely to vote for credible candidates at all levels, recalling that, that was what they did in 2003, stressing that if 10-15 states can emulate what Kano did in 2003 no doubt, ANPP would win the 2007 election in the country.