- President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, met behind closed-doors in Abuja on Friday, November 16
- The meeting was not unconnected with the party's preparation for its flag-off for campaigns ahead of 2019 elections
- Oshiomhole said that the campaign would be on character and the integrity of candidates
President Muhammadu Buhari and the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, met behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday, November 16.
Vanguard reports that while speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting, Oshiomhole said that the APC was fully ready to flag off the campaigns soon and that party’s campaign for the 2019 presidential election would focus on character and integrity of the key candidates.
Legit.ng gathered that he said that INEC still has a window between now and first of January, 2019, to deal with issues of substitution of candidate names.
He said: “We are fully ready, we have done with our primaries and filled our nominations. As you know, INEC still has a window between now and first of January to deal with issues of substitution. As of campaigns, we are ready.
“We are going to announce the date and programme for our campaigns, and speak to the issues. My idea of kick off will be the day we will do our first presidential rally where Mr. President as our candidate and other candidates, party leaders will assemble in a venue that will be agreeable to all of us.
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“There will be two sets of messages. One, on what we have done in the past, without failing to remind people of where we were before, what we are going to do in the next three years, and a couple of things we believe we will be doing differently.
“Why we are a better choice? President Buhari if compared to the rest of the aspirants, there is no basis to compare day and night.
"The real issue in this election is not going to be religion. It is not going to be about political party, central to the issue and given our past experience as a country, we know that what makes a difference is the character, the issue of integrity of the candidates.
“All those issues of character, especially looking at the past, the key candidates in the election are not strangers to governance, they are not even strangers to this villa, so we will be able to ask a couple of questions about what do they know now that they didn’t know then when they had power.
“This edition is going to be focusing on character, integrity of those who want to govern us. In addition to what and how they will do things differently.”
He also dismissed allegations of corruption against him, levelled by Senator Shehu Sani who had accused him of collecting bribes of up to $2million to manipulate the senatorial primaries of Kaduna central zone.
On the crisis in Imo APC governorship candidate, he said there was no crisis.
According to him, “What is the crisis? That somebody won and somebody lost and the person who lost said no, no, no, I am the son-in-law to the governor I can’t lose and therefore we have crisis.
"Go to Imo and find out, go to the markets, mechanic workshops or even the civil servants in Imo and ask how they think on the issue of son-in-law. Look at the crowd that received Senator Hope Uzodimma, it was a mixture of both a rejection of dynasty vis a vis the natural support base that Hope has.
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"Haven’t you seen on social media how the excited Imolites erected statue on Oshiomhole although the body is big.”
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that President Muhammadu Buhari said he is not surprised by the split within the Ohanaeze Igbo socio-cultural group over its reported endorsement of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
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