*IBB, Atiku, Gusau exonerate selves from blame
*Jonathan looks beyond poll
By EMMANUEL AZIKEN & DAPO AKINREFON
LAGOS – PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan and his two major contenders in tomorrow’s presidential election were, yesterday, trying to outsmart one another in the race for the Presidency.
While President Jonathan, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was tying loose ends and ensuring full turnout of already mobilized supporters, his two rivals were plotting strategies to deny the President a first round victory in the presidential election.
Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, which split on the issue of an alliance, Wednesday morning; were on election eve managing the damages arising from the acrimonious divorce.
The CPC candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, in defence of his stance on the alliance described rumours that he sabotaged the alliance as “baseless and unfounded.”
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the ACN presidential candidate again confessed that he made the offer to step down for Buhari, even as he urged Nigerians not to sell their consciences tomorrow.