Joe Igbokwe, the Publicity
Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, has declared
that there is no vacancy in Aso Rock in 2019, insisting that all the
presidential candidates put together will not be able to unseat President
Muhammadu Buhari.
According to Igbokwe, the ruling
APC would not lose sleep over the emergence of former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the main
opposition party, stressing that the contest was going to be between integrity
versus corruption.
Igbokwe told newsmen in Lagos
that Nigerians cannot trust Atiku because of the many cases of corruption
hanging around his neck.
He said, “Let me put it this way,
all the presidential candidates put together, both the serious and the
unserious, will not be able to unseat Buhari.
“The contest is going to be
between integrity versus corruption. And if that is going to be the parameter
to judge, it means that there is no vacancy in Aso Rock. If corruption and
integrity were to be in contest, then integrity must win. If integrity must
win, therefore, Aso Rock is not vacant for now.
“There is no meeting point
between light and darkness. We cannot trust Atiku with the keys of the national
treasury given his antecedent. I don’t know whether you have watched Obasanjo’s
video on Atiku.
“If there is anybody that knows
Atiku very well, that person must be Obasanjo because they worked together for
eight years. Obasanjo said some Americans came probably from FBI and said that
they wanted to investigate some Nigerians and Atiku was one of them.
“After that, Obasanjo was also
inclusive, but they couldn’t find anything on him. Meanwhile, on Atiku, there
was a damning report. And given what Obasanjo knows about the findings of those
people, he said that God would not forgive him if he supports Atiku. If Obasanjo
says that kind of thing, then we cannot trust Atiku with the keys of the
national treasury.
“Another point is what played out
in Port Harcourt at the PDP national convention. It was a bazaar. It was an
audacious and thunderous celebration of corruption, where dollars were used
with reckless abandon to buy delegates’ votes. We cannot have that kind of
person in the saddle. His wealth is questionable. Also remember that PDP told
Nigerians that they had repented and pleaded that they should be given another
chance.”
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