President Muhammadu
Buhari on Friday met behind close-doors with the All Progressives Congress
(APC) gubernatorial candidate in Ogun state, Mr. Dapo Abiodun, and a chieftain
of the party, Chief Segun Osoba.
Fielding questions
from State House correspondents after the meeting, Segun Osoba said the
President endorsed Dapo Abiodun as the Ogun state APC gubernatorial candidate
in the 2019 elections.
He said the President
pledged to personally visit Ogun state where he would formally present Abiodun
to the people of the state as the party’s gubernatorial candidate in the
general elections.
“Mr. President has
confirmed that his candidate in Ogun State is Prince Dapo Abiodun and that he
has no other candidate. His party in Ogun State is APC, he has no other party
in Nigeria other than APC. He assured us that he will personally come to Ogun
state to formally present Prince Dapo Abiodun as his candidate.
“He assured that he
is clearing the air of any ambiguity whatsoever of any name dropping; any
blackmail; any misinformation that anybody maybe peddling, and that all
elections throughout Nigeria, not just in Ogun state, people must vote for APC
and no other party. That is the message that the President gave to us,’’ he
said.
Osoba also told
journalists that he used the opportunity of the meeting to present his
autobiography to the President, saying it would be launched after getting a
date from the President.
“I also seized the
opportunity to present my autobiography which I’m going to launch if the
President gives me a date. In this book, I reminded him of the letter he wrote
to me on June 12, 1984 when he appointed me as Managing Director of the Daily
Times.
“So, I presented the
book to him. In the book I showed the judgment in 2003 when he won the election
in Ogun state even when he was not the president. So, if he can win in 2015 by
defeating an incumbent president he would win in 2019, by the grace of God.
In his remarks, APC)
gubernatorial candidate in Ogun state, Mr. Dapo Abiodun, said he was elated
with the President’s personal endorsement, saying that all those in other
political parties campaigning with Buhari’s name and pictures should desist
forthwith.
The APC gubernatorial
candidate, who won the APC party primaries in Ogun against the wish of Governor
Ibukunle Amosun, said he and the APC were sure of coasting to victory in the
2019 poll.
“Let me thank Mr
President for clearing the air as our leader has said and reaffirming that he
is the APC Presidential candidate and I, Prince Dapo Abiodun, I’m the APC
gubernatorial candidate and I’m his candidate and this (APC) is his party, he
has no other candidate in Ogun state except me.
“I think that
affirmation could not have come at a better time when there are a lot of
ambiguities, when people have attempted to spread falsehood and all manners of
misinformation.
“So, I’m very elated
and very reassured that our president has stood by the party and has stood by me
and I believe this matter will finally be put to rest and all those that are
trying to gain by using the president’s picture on their posters and on their
vehicles would finally begin to remove it.
“This is because it’s
actually illegal for you to be putting the presidential candidate of another
party on the face of the poster of another party, is an attempt to confuse and
misinform the public.
“I believe after
today, everybody will know that in Ogun state the only party to vote for is
APC, from Presidential election to Gubernatorial to Senatorial to House of
Representatives and to House of Assembly will be APC all the way,’’ he said.
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