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2019: Tinubu urges Nigerians to re-elect President Buhari

2019: Tinubu urges Nigerians to re-elect President Buhari

Re-election

By Sunday Bassey/Isaiah Eka

Uyo, Dec. 28, 2018 (NAN) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, National Leader, All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged Nigerians to re-elect President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term in 2019 to foster continuity, hope and development.

Tinubu made the call on Friday at the APC 2019 Presidential Campaign Flag-off in Uyo, Akwa Ibom.

He also assured that the APC government would continue to give Nigerians hope and diversify the country’s economy.

He said that the campaign flag-off in Uyo was an endorsement of what he called continuity of hope and development of Nigeria as embodied by the APC.

According to him Akwa Ibom is the largest producer of petroleum.

He said that the PDP government had ruled Nigerians with “miserable and corrosive economy” in 16 years and urged eligible Nigerian voters not to vote for PDP to rule Nigeria in 2019.

“We are strongly determined to change the coast and redirect the vessel of governance in Nigeria, that is what President Buhari is all about, and that is what APC is determined to do,’’ he said.

The APC National Leader also said that the APC-led government was building foundations for the youths, the elderly and children of tomorrow.

`This is a very successful day and outing, this stadium is filled to capacity for one thing, the progress of our nation, Nigeria, to endorse the continuity of hope and continuity of development.

“We came in 2015 and assured the nation that Nigerian was yearning for change. Change from ineptitude; change from corruption; change from laziness; change from Importation; change with a great meaning for development and diversification of economy.

“Vote for your future and not that of corruption, they took 16 years and gave 16 years of darkness, if only they concentrated on one item like power, Nigeria would have not been in this mess. We are not bringing you (PDP) back.’’

Also speaking, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, the APC National Chairman, said that the 2019 campaign would be based on issues of integrity, between integrity and others.

Oshiomole said that the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, was well known in Nigeria and indeed globally.

He urged Nigerians to be wary of the PDP presidential candidate who had “put Nigerians on notice that he will sell the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)’’.

“All I want to do is to present to you the four candidates that will fly the party’s governorship flag for 2019.

“They are: Mr Nsima Ekere, Akwa Ibom; Sen. John Enoh, for Cross River, Mr Great Ogboru, for Delta; and Mr Tonye Cole, of Rivers State,” he said.

The Director-General of Buhari Campaign Organisation and Minister for Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, also said that the APC had delivered on its promises to Nigeria.

Speaking at the flag-off in Uyo, Amaechi said the party had fulfilled its promise to improve the economy, ensure security and fight corruption.

He noted that the party promised to bring about change in the country and it achieved that, adding, however, that changes do not come easily.

He said that the party did not promise to make the Naira equivalent to the Dollar and to bring down the price of petrol.

Amaechi said that the party had created employment for Nigerians, adding that even the opposition had testified to the fact that President Buhari is fighting corruption and is not corrupt.

Ntufam Hilliard Etta,  National Vice Chairman , South-South, also said that Nigerians should vote for the party’s candidate in 2019 alleging also that “PDP has destroyed the country for 16 years’’.

Sen. Godswill Akpabio also assured that Akwa Ibom would deliver APC in 2019, adding that “the election is all about integrity versus others”.

“The president has integrity. He has integrity to continue in office. He has completed many projects and initiated new ones. That is why we are going to run the APC presidential election on the basis of performance.

He lauded the president and the party for choosing to flag off the campaign in Akwa Ibom.

Responding on behalf of the four gubernatorial candidates, Ekere thanked the APC for giving them the mandate and assured that they would work hard to ensure victory for the president and all APC candidates in 2019. (NAN)

IE/SDB/DOE/AMY

Edited by Dianabasi Effiong and Abdullahi Yusuf

General news

2019: Group drums support for Buhari’s re-election

2019: Group drums support for Buhari’s re-election
NAN-H-10
Support
By Awayi Kuje
Keffi (Nasarawa State), March 6, 2018 (NAN) The Buhari Grassroots Link Movement, a political group in Nasarawa State, has called on Nigerians to support the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
Mallam Abdulkarim Abdullahi, the Leader of the Movement, made this call on Tuesday while speaking with newsmen shortly after a meeting of the group in Keffi, Keffi Local Government Area of the state.
Abdullahi said Buhari’s re-election would ensure continuity in the positive affairs of the nation.
“Nigerians must also play their parts in the task of nation-building by supporting President Buhari-led government’s effort at moving the country forward,’’ he said.
He reiterated that the group’s decision was based partly in recognition of the laudable achievements of the president and his team in the last two and half years.
Abdullahi said that the aim of the meeting was to discuss how to mobilise support at the grassroots for the re-election of Buhari next year and whenever the president makes public his intentions.
“We are calling on Nigerians to support President Buhari beyond 2019 to enable him continue with the good work he has been doing in the interest of peace and national development.
“Nigeria’s future is assured with the APC-led government of President Buhari for embarking on projects that have direct bearing on the lives of people,” he said.
Abdullahi noted that Buhari had done credibly well, especially in the areas of fighting corruption, security, employment and agriculture among others.
According to him, the group is delighted with the quality of development projects so far carried out by the administration and called for its sustenance.
He also urged Nigerians to be law abiding, respect constituted authorities, continue to live in peace, while tolerating one another irrespective of ethnic, religious and political affiliation. (NAN)
AKW/KTO/MST
Edited by Kamal Tayo Oropo/Muhammad Suleiman Tola

Politics

2019: Gov. Bindow seeks re-election of all political office holders

2019: Gov. Bindow seeks re-election of all political office holders
NAN-H-3
Continuity
Yola, Dec. 22, 2017 (NAN) Gov. Mohammed Bindow of Adamawa on Friday urged the electorate to re-elect all politicians occupying various positions in the state.
Bindow made the call when the APC state executive paid him a thank you visit in Yola for sponsoring them to Jerusalem for pilgrimage.
NAN recalls that the State Government had sponsored some Christian leaders in the APC from the state to ward levels in the just concluded Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
The governor said that four years in office was not enough for the elected public office holders to give their best, urging the electorate to give them a second chance.
However, he advised the political office holders to make themselves accessible to the people.
“I solicit the re-election of all those who are occupying various political elective positions from unit to national level in our party and from councillor to the Senate.
“I am most concerned about the legislature because four years is not enough for one to give out his best.
“I equally feel that everyone is doing his best in his area of assignment except where one has derailed that we will live him to his fate.
“I also enjoined all office holders to make themselves accessible to the people and to consistently sensitise the people on the programmes and agenda of the government,’’ Bindow said.
Earlier, Alhaji Mustapha Salisu, the Vice Chairman, North East of the APC, urged the entire state executive to endorse Bindow for 2019.
Salisu said that the landslide achievements by the administration in the state has made it easier for the re-election of the governor
According to him, the party at the national has endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari, therefore it is not out of place if the party at state level can do same.
He urged the party leadership to stand by the governor, adding that the governor is “a sellable candidate’’.
Mr Samaila Thadeaus, the Vice Chairman of APC in the state, thanked the governor for sponsoring them to the Holy land.
Thadeaus said that the delegation was proud of the governor for discouraging religious politics in the state.
He assured Bindow of their unflinching support for the success of his administration. (NAN)
MK/MST
Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola