The Secretary to the Government
of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, yesterday gave reasons the Federal
Government was solidly behind Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as the next national
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
He said Oshiomhole was the man
the party needed to lead it to victory in the 2019 general elections.
Oshiomhole is unopposed in the bid to take over from Chief John Odigie-Oyegun
as chairman of the ruling party
However, Mustapha pointed out
that Oshiomhole became the chosen one due to his track record.
He further explained that the
nature of the electioneering for 2019 will be slightly different from that of
2015 as APC will be showing its scorecards to the electorate as against making
promises that was the case in 2015.
He told journalists yesterday in
Abuja: “With skills and experience as a former labour leader and former
governor of a tough state, Oshiomhole was well-positioned to provide the
leadership that APC requires at the moment. I believe he has got all it takes
to lead our party in the future.
“So, I have come to encourage him
because I believe we need somebody like him at the moment to give the
purposeful leadership that we require,” Mustapha said.
“I believe Comrade (Oshiomhole)
has got the tenacity, the intellectual ability and the organisational skills
having been a labour leader and served as a governor for eight years in a very
difficult state like Edo. He will be able to take us and usher us to a brighter
2019,” the SGF added.
“We are a democratic party.
Nobody is going to be gagged. Nobody is going to be stopped from contesting any
office. But you know as part of the election processes, there are negotiations
and there are agreements and there are consensus building mechanisms that have
been put in place.
“The beauty about the APC is that
we came from different legacy parties but we deployed all the available skills
and resources that we had to craft our constitution to also craft the manifesto
and even the election manifesto.
“Comrade (Oshiomhole) was a very
fundamental part of it. So he understands the working of the party because he
participated in the crafting of these instruments that we are using. The truth
about it is that in every party and in every system, the supremacy of the party
is always non-negotiable because that is the platform that produces everybody.”
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