Friends of Buhari to hold mega rally in UK

Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s announcement to seek re-election in 2019, a group under the aegis of Friends of Muhammadu Buhari (FMB) in Nigeria and Diaspora, has concluded plans to hold a mega rally in the United Kingdom in his support.

Speaking at the sideline after its meeting in Abuja on Saturday, the group’s chairman, Mr Chamberlain Adiaso, who was represented by its secretary and South East Zonal Women Leader of the APC, Rev. Mrs Sally Williams Chinedu, said the rally, slated for the first week of May, would showcase President Buhari’s concrete achievements in the last three years to the world and Nigerians in Diaspora.

On why the rally is coming at this time, especially in the UK, Adiaso, who also led the same group to counter an opposition rally against the president when he was on admission in the UK said, “We believe out of sheer patriotism that the time to showcase Buhari’s achievements is now, because some still believe that the president is not doing anything at all and they believe that his image must be damaged both nationally and internationally by organizing rallies outside the country.

“They did it last year when he was on admission in London, we countered it with ours which was a resounding success. It is this same group of persons that is organizing this coming mega rally across the UK.’’