The 24 governors elected on the
platform of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) on Tuesday announced
their endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s candidature for the 2019
presidential election.
Rochas Okorocha, Imo state
governor, made the position of the governors known to state house
correspondents after a closed-door meeting with the president at the
presidential villa, Abuja.
The president had at the last APC
national executive committee meeting declared his intention to run for second
term in 2019.
Okorocha told the correspondents
that they communicated their support for the president’s re-election bid at the
meeting.
“We came to welcome him back and
to commend him for his boldness and courage to declare his intention to run for
second term as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which we the 24
governors of the APC duly support,” he said.
“And we have come to encourage
him that he must go ahead with his vision to rescue Nigeria from its present
challenges.”
According to him, the meeting
also addressed the issue of the forthcoming convention and congresses in order
to make it hitch-free.
He said the president and
governors had resolved to produce a strong party chairman that could deliver
tangible results for the party in the forthcoming general election.
He added that “we also agreed
that we will not allow the issue of many contestants to destroy our party.”.
The governor, who is also the
chairman of APC Governors’ Forum, dismissed the assertion that the meeting was
convened to endorse Adams Oshiomole, former Edo governor, as next APC national
chairman.
He, however, disclosed that the governors
would soon make their stance known on the subject matter, adding that the
“public will be duly briefed in due course”.
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