- Uche Nwosu said Atiku Abubakar picking his running mate from south-east will not stop President Muhammadu Buhari from winning in 2019 elections
- Nwosu said anybody from south-east supporting Atiku in the coming election is making a big mistake
- He called on Ndigbo to support President Buhari so the presidency slot can return to south-east in 2019
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Imo state, Uche Nwosu, said Atiku Abubakar's decision to pick a man from south-east, Peter Obi, as his running mate, will not prevent President Muhammadu Buhari from winning in the 2019 general elections.
Nwosu said President Buhari has a better chance of beating the Peoples Democratic Party's candidate, Atiku, in 2019.
He said: “I don’t think that the nomination of the PDP presidential running mate from the south-east will affect anything, because President Muhammadu Buhari has made a landmark decision, I call him a man of his word.
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“One thing is sure and that is President Buhari cannot be compared to Atiku Abubakar. President Buhari is a man of integrity and remember that the country was almost gone before he came in and since he came in, you can see that every part of our economy is doing well and our integrity abroad has been restored now.
“President Buhari remains the best for the Ndigbo and the country. The Ndigbo will wait till 2023 to produce the President after Buhari has served out his second term than this vice-presidential slot to the South-East."
Nwosu added that supporting Atiku to win the 2019 presidential election will be a huge mistake for south-east.
He said: “Anybody from the south-east who is supporting Atiku is making a very big mistake. We cannot afford to wait for another eight years to have an Igbo man as President, I think it is a carrot that is being dangled before the Ndigbo but we must reject it.
“We cannot wait for another eight years. We prefer to vote for President Buhari and in the next four years, power will return to the south-east. So the issue of vice-president cannot bring anything to the south-east.
“You cannot compare a vice-president to a president. So, the issue of bringing Peter Obi is to deceive the Ndigbo again and make them continue the waiting game all over again. What we are asking for as the Ndigbo is a president, not vice-president, that is not what we need.
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“When President Buhari finishes in 2023, it will be the turn of the Ndigbo, so no Igbo man that is deep in politics, will think of supporting Atiku Abubakar, who will want to stay for another eight years, no that is not acceptable. So we shall vote for Buhari en masse to ensure that the Ndigbo will only have to wait for four years.”
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com earlier reported that the formal president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, urged south-east elders to cease their complains over the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar's choice of Peter Obi as running mate in the 2019 general elections.
Jonathan, in a press release on Sunday, October 14, said although consultation is necessary, Atiku is allowed to choose anyone loyal to him as his running mate and he has choosen Peter Obi.
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