PRESIDENT BUHARI WELCOMES NEW APC LEADERS, COMMENDS MEMBERS FOR ABUJA SHOW OF UNITY

President Muhammadu Buhari formally congratulates the Abdullahi Adamu-led 79-member National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that emerged at the just concluded convention in Abuja, saying that the unity of members put on display puts the party on a firmer footing for victory in next year, 2023, General Elections.

The President who returned to the Convention ground at the Eagle Square, Sunday morning, along with the Vice President and the Senate President to witness and celebrate the inauguration of the elected party executives, remarked that the smooth conduct of the election raises the prospect of a mouth-watering APC victory next year.

“The APC Convention hosted this weekend sets the scene for an APC victory in the presidential and general elections next year. It is a victory over naysayers who believed the party was divided but are now disappointed,” said the President.

We believe that it is equally a victory for the president who has ensured unity across all party positions; and it is a victory for the voters of Nigeria who can now be assured of a smooth succession to new leadership in 2023.
What the Convention made clear was how the media has been peddling fake news of division, when the hard reality of unity, cohesion, and indeed personal warmth between members of the party’s leaders – incoming and outgoing – was evident for all to see.

Of course, the blame for this mindset ought rightly to go to the opposition who in all these years had done the work to only divide the country, leading to all manner of separatist agitations. But this is not the wish, nor is it in the character of the citizens, as was clear for everyone to see at the Eagle Square.

When their fake news of disunity was undone by the facts, some in the opposition could not help themselves but take to the newspapers and the airwaves to find another way to shore up their reputations. That some of the APC’s new leadership were once in the opposition was the new line to take to the media, somehow suggesting that those who have left one party should not hold positions in another. Yet, do the Scriptures not teach us of the virtue of sinners who repent and change their ways?

What the Scriptures say less is of sinners who repent, change their tune, and then choose to re-sin in full public view by returning to their former ways. Given that most important leaders of the opposition PDP first left the party before they returned to it, we might expect the media to ensure criticism of them is damning and absolute. It is incredulous that anyone would consider them trustworthy or acceptable candidates for any public office.

The stage is now set for the APC primary elections later this year when the party’s new flag bearers will emerge. No doubt some will attempt to argue the impossible – that an APC primary election is a source of division while an opposition primary election is a source of consensus. But the good voters of Nigeria can see through such acrobatics and know the facts that, when the contests for 2023 come, APC offers a track record of success and leadership, while the opposition has only decades of failure and complicity in response.

Garba Shehu
Senior Special Assistant to the President
(Media & Publicity)
March 27, 2022

Nice

Let me see any Tinubu supporter that will call Buhari clueless again

The drama that will be unfolding in APC in coming months will shock everybody. People already know that Buhari time is up. The battle of interest is already ongoing and will surprise everyone as it bumerages.

The same way he will welcome the consensus presidential candidate that's even yet to declare

The drama that preceded the convention and the selection of the executives shows that many people are hiding behind the President to lie to the people because of their closeness to the President.

Nonsense

To hell with all of them

Nwodosis:
The same way he will welcome the consensus presidential candidate that's even yet to declare

I swear. Na consensus President go likely happen. It won’t be an open primary. He knows if it is a contested primaries that Tinubu will win and he doesn’t want Tinubu that’s why I suspect he’ll use consensus too for presidency. Or he’ll pressure the opponents to step down for his preferred candidate.

Ebubu:
I swear. Na consensus President go likely happen. It won’t be an open primary. He knows if it is a contested primaries that Tinubu will win and he doesn’t want Tinubu that’s why I suspect he’ll use consensus too for presidency. Or he’ll pressure the opponents to step down for his preferred candidate.

The game plan is for the consensus man to enter few weeks to the primary and say he was pressured by buhari to run

Buhari would now give reasons why he support the man for the best continuity of his legacy

Meanwhile south west have gotten apc secretary, south east have national deputy chairman for south

He would explain that presidency should be microzoned to south south for equity

Drug Lord would be automatically disqualified