We Didn’t Endorse Buhari, Failed Attempt To Launder Failure, Says KOWA Party

Nigeria’s KOWA Party has denied its reported endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari for second term.

The Party’s national chairman’s name, Saidu Bobboi, and his signature were published as among the national chairmen who signed a full-page advertorial in Thursday’s ThisDay newspaper endorsing the president.

However, the national headquarters of the party has come out strongly against the endorsement through a statement issued by its national secretary, Comrade Mark Adebayo, in Abuja.

“It has come as a rude shock to the party’s National Executive Committee of KOWA Party that the party’s name was published as among political parties purported to have endorsed the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari, for second term.

“KOWA Party was never and will never be part of such thoughtless and shameless contraption of endorsement. As far we are concerned it fake news!

“We urge all KOWA Party members and supporters across the country and the Diaspora to completely disregard such sociopolitical sacrilege against the noble spirit and cause that KOWA Party represents.

“KOWA Party will never support the complete failure that the Buhari government represents. That was why the party joined the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) and has actively participated in all its activities leading up to the emergence of Ex-VP Atiku Abubakar as coalition candidate.

“KOWA Party remains an integral part of the CUPP and cannot, just a few days to the presidential election, commit such an irresponsible and ridiculous volte face to endorse a government we have consistently criticised for the aggravated backwardness, insecurity, unprecedented corruption, arrogant nepotism, cluelessness and cabal domination as attested to even by Mrs. Aisha Buhari, the president’s wife.

“KOWA Party is standing on solid abutments of honor and ideological integrity that can’t just be rubbished so brazenly and shamelessly. We therefore strongly and unequivocally dissociate the party from the endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari”.

On the alleged collection of a N100 million each by the parties that endorsed Buhari, Bobboi said; “Well, if anybody collected One Hundred Million Naira to endorse Buhari he or she did so at his/her own peril, not on behalf of KOWA Party.

“Those who gave the money know who collected such cursed money from them and know how to recover their corrupted money. No such amount or any amount for that matter for such shameful action was credited into KOWA Party’s account. The creditors must surely know who their debtor is”.