Shehu said this while fielding
questions from state house correspondents on Monday.
He was reacting to the string of
victories recorded by the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) during the
weekend’s bye elections in the country.
“Decisive victories in senatorial
and state assembly elections in Katsina, Bauchi, Kogi and states were an indication
that the Buhari/Osinbajo presidential ticket that won the 2015 election will
ensure an encore in 2019,” he said.
The presidential media said the
victory in those states shows that the ruling party is still popular and that
Nigerians have just endorsed Buhari/Osinbajo joint ticket.
“I like to speak to you about the
fabulous shows of the APC in Katsina, Bauchi and Kogi, and even to some extent
in Cross River States. All of these coming against the background of Ekiti
state,” he said.
“It is clear that from election
after election, Nigerians are reposing confidence in the Buhari/Osinbajo
presidency. Each of these election victories is considered to be epic in nature
because none of these elections was an ordinary election. We are happy that we
have won and on behalf of the president and the acting president, we like to
say thank you to Nigerians who continue to repose their confidence in the
leadership of the APC administration.
“We also want to thank the
leadership of the party at the national level, but equally important, to thank
all the party’s apparatchiks deployed to all the campaigns and ensured that all
the elections were won handsomely by APC.
“So, we are expressing our
gratitude to everyone for these that had happened and to say that with this
increasing confidence reposed in the president and the acting president, who
are determined more than ever before to leave no stone unturned in order to
bring the promised change to Nigerians.
“For a quick review, maybe one,
two, three or four lessons can be taken from the victories that the party has
been recording.
“First of all is to say that
these decisive victories are indications that clearly, Nigerians have spoken
that President Buhari maintains his momentum. That these victories place
Buhari/Osinbajo presidency in very good stead for next year’s election.
“It is a statement of the fact
that the APC will go into election next year with every confidence that the
elections will be won and that Nigerians by this statement, will also say that they no longer have time for politics
of insult and diversion, mudslinging and ‘monkey dey work, baboon dey chop’
politics of the PDP, and equally important is that these election victories are
a clear message to the national assembly that all that Nigerians are interested
in is that the business of government should go on.”
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