SECOND TERM DECLARATION: HOW APC WILL CAPTURE THE SOUTH-EAST – NWOYE OPENS UP
SECOND
TERM DECLARATION: HOW APC WILL CAPTURE THE SOUTH-EAST – NWOYE OPENS UP
Enugu State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Dr. Ben Nwoye, has expressed optimism that the party would win all the states
in the South-East geopolitical zone of the country in 2019.
Nwoye’s optimism came on the heels of the declaration by
President Muhammadu Buhari to re-contest the presidency in 2019.
Speaking with journalists yesterday on arrival at Akanu
Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, after the National Executive Committee
(NEC) meeting of the party in Abuja on Monday, during which President Buhari
declared his interest to seek re-election, Nwoye claimed that the South-East
APC actually won the Presidency for Buhari in 2015 general elections.
The chairman contended that many people erroneously believed
that a state like Enugu gave President Buhari less than three per cent of votes
and that other states in the zone did not fare better.
He said that on the contrary, the APC leaders fought very
hard and prevented the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from turning
out bloated results as they did in 2011 general elections which APC lost.
Nwoye added that in 2015, APC leaders in the zone invested more efforts, time
and resources in ensuring that the rigging machine of PDP was demobilised.
He said: “That President Buhari did not score up to three
per cent in Enugu in the last election is somewhat incorrect. It’s a reported
election result which was compiled by the then PDP; we know it was a rigged
election. Even our executive members alone from the ward and their family would
have scored more than the 14,000 plus votes.
“But when you had us struggling, preventing them from
writing excessive number of votes or going out and keep mobilising to vote, we
chose the former, which is preventing excessive rigging. In essence, Enugu
State won the election of 2015 for Buhari with other South-East states. If we
had allowed the PDP to write the same type of results they wrote in 2011 and we
were just trying to mobilise so that we score three per cent, President
Muhammadu Buhari will not be a President now and he understands that.
