2019: Buhari’ll Be Re-elected Without Obasanjo’s Support – Oshiomhole

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has expressed confidence that President Muhmmadu Buhari will be re-elected in 2019 without the support of former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

Speaking at the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano state, where a grand rally to welcome former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shekarau and other PDP defectors, held on Sunday, said President Buhari will be returned to office in 2019 based on his popularity.

The APC Chairman equally accused Obasanjo of working with the PDP to “impose a proxy president” on the nation in the coming presidential election in February, 2019.

“Attempts being made by Obasanjo to impose a proxy president on the country in 2019 would never see the light of the day as Nigerians would vote en masse for President Buhari without the support of Obasanjo,” said Oshiomhole.

“Never again will this country be governed by opportunists, who have in the last 16 years wasted the nation’s treasury,” he said.

The APC Chairman also denied claims that his party, ahead of the 2015 elections, had promised to turn the country’s fortunes around within four years.

“APC did not promise to reposition Nigeria in four years, as what the PDP destroyed in 16 years can never be fixed in three and a half years.

“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,” said the APC Chairman.

He added that, “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.”