30th July 2018
Buhari campaign team insists that the recent defections of members of the APC at the National Assembly and across the states to the People Democratic Party (PDP) won’t stop the president’s re-election.
By Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum, Rochas Okorocha, has boasted that the current crisis rocking the All Progressive Congress(APC) will not affect the party’s chance of having a sweet victory in the 2019 general elections.
Governor Okorocha, who said this in a press statement he made available through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, noted that what the party is undergoing is mere politics and can never affect its fortunes.
He also described emergence of Comrade Adams Oshiomole as the new chairman of the party as timely, just as he commended those who fought against the erstwhile chairman of the party, John Oyegun’s tenure elongation.
He said “In other words, Oshiomhole’s coming was timely. He came at the appropriate time. He is on it and will get it right. All we need to do is to support him. APC has come to stay as number one party in the country, and even in Africa. All that are happening in the party now are indices of party politics and they have nothing to do with the fortunes of the part, either now or in 2019.
He insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari will be re-elected by Nigerians in 2019, while the APC would have more governors and legislators elected. He claimed that available records showed that APC has done well in four years compared with the 16 years spent by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“Adams Oshiomhole has the political will and all it takes to make APC an in- stitution that we shall all be proud of. We know his capacity and that was why we all supported him. He will drive us safely to our destination, by the grace of God.”
The governor further asserted that the emergence of Oshiomole has altered the plan of those who wanted to destroy the party for their personal interests.
Meanwhile, President Buhari’s campaign team has insisted that the recent defections of members of the APC at the National Assembly and across the states to the People Democratic Party (PDP) won’t stop the president’s re-election.
In a statement signed in Abuja, by the Director of Strategic Communications, Festus Keyamo, the team said the defections would even be more if the much-rumoured two more governors defect from the APC.
The campaign team also revealed that from the demographics it has on the historic figures and the present realities “these defections will have little or no impact on the chance of Mr. President’s re-election.
“The president won with large margins in the past in some States without the support of majority of the politicians from those states who moved recently to join the opposition party
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