The National
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, on Sunday
berated the Peoples Democratic Party and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying
never again would Nigeria be ruled by opportunists.
He said attempts
being made by Obasanjo to impose a proxy
president on the country in 2019 would never see the light of the day.
Oshiomhole,
who spoke during a grand rally at Sani Abacha Stadium to welcome defectors from
the Peoples Democratic Party and the Kwankwasiyya Movement to the APC, pointed
out that without the support of Obasanjo, Nigerians would vote en-masse for
President Buhari.
The chairman
said the APC did not promise to reposition Nigeria in four years, stressing
that what the PDP destroyed in 16 years could never be fixed in three and a
half years
The APC
national chairman said,” Today, those who through a single telephone would make
billions of Naira have regrouped when they ran to Port Harcourt. They have
forgotten that what they destroyed in the last 16 years could not be fixed in
just three and a half years.”
“Today, our
opponents in the PDP are crying even before the elections proper. They wrote a
letter of complaint to the United Nations
I wonder who will carry the letter for them, forgetting that it was
them, who introduced a do or die affair politics during Obasanjo’s tenure.
Buhari is highly respected across the globe, so he is bigger than rigging the
elections”.
“Never again
will this country be governed by opportunists, who have in the last 16 years
wasted the nation’s treasury.”
In his remarks, a former Kano State Governor,
Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, expressed optimism that the APC would record a
landslide victory in 2019.
The state
Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, stressed that nothing would stop the APC
from getting five million votes for Buhari.
Earlier at
the rally, Shekarau, said he and his
supporters were happy to return to the APC, predicting that the general
elections would be a total victory for the party.
He said, “It
is appropriate for me to say that it is a great day for me to address a mammoth
crowd of supporters of the APC. I am happy that history is now repeating
itself, noting that it would be recalled that sometime in 2014, he dumped the
party but now back to the party”
“I have
great honour today,, as we left the party in 2014, with reasons, as we decided
to step aside and now we have resolved to move back to APC”, he said.
“To this
end, Shakarau commended his supporters,
who have all moved to APC along with him, adding that: “ I am now proud to be a
member of APC and promise total commitment to the party.
“Come 2019
,we would join all patriotic members of the party to work tirelessly for the
victory of the party.”
Earlier on
the occasion, Ganduje, said with Shakarau joining the APC, it had hijacked
more than half of the members of PDP.
He added
that the APC was a great party, not only in Nigeria, but also in Africa, noting
that the party would continue to wax stronger, because with the number of
highly rated personalities joining the party, along with Mallam Shekarau, there
was no more any cog on the path of the party to retain the power.
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