The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in Imo State, Uche Nwosu, said that the ceding of vice presidential slot to the Southeast by the opposition PDP would not stop President Muhammadu Buhari from winning in the zone.
Nwosu viewed the nomination of the former Anambra governor as Abubakar’s running mate as another ploy to derail the Igbo Presidency.
According to him, “I don’t think that the nomination of the PDP presidential running mate from the Southeast will affect anything, because President Buhari has made a landmark, I call him a man of his word.
“One this is sure that President Buhari cannot be compared to Abubarkar. President Buhari is a man of integrity and remember that the country was almost gone before he came in and since he came in, you can see that every part of our economy is doing well and our integrity abroad has been restored and the fear of corruption is very high now, so President Buhari remains the best for Ndigbo and the country.
“Abubarka is doing a very big mistake, we cannot afford to wait for another eight years to have an Igbo man as a President, I think it is
“a carrot that is being dangled at Ndigbo but we must reject it, we cannot wait for another eight years, we prefer to vote for President Buhari and in the next four years, power will return to the Southeast.
“So the issue of vice president cannot bring anything to the Southeast, you cannot compare a vice president to a president. So, the issue of bringing Peter Obi is to deceive Ndigbo again and make them continue the waiting all over again. What we are asking for as Ndigbo is a president, not vice president. That is not what we need.
“When President Buhari finishes in 2023, it will be the turn of Ndigbo. So, no Igbo man that is well in politics, will think of supporting Abubakar, who will want to stay for another eight years, no that is not acceptable. So, we shall vote for Buhari en masse to ensure that Ndigbo will only have to wait for four years”.
On the possible extraction of commitment for the anticipated Igbo Presidency in 2023, Nwosu assured that, “those expressing doubt are not members of the APC, we that are members of the APC will tell you the commitment President Buhari has for Igbo presidency. So, let them wait and see what will happen. So, on the issue of power coming to the Souteast, President Buhari is a man of integrity, a man of his word and will support Ndigbo after the end of his tenure in 2023”.
Nwosu also dismissed insinuations that the APC may have been weakened by crisis arising from the just concluded primaries.
He said ”I don’t think it has affected the party in anyway, it is politics and the most important thing is that at the end of the whole thing, we must resolved the issue of our quarrel because the APC is a big party and the party in power, it is not a problem at all”.
He also lauded Adams Oshiomole’s led National Working Committee (NWC) and members saying that “I think our national chairman has all it takes to bring the APC to victory in 2019, remember that before now the party was in shambles and nobody was hearing about the party.
“The former leadership did not visit any state throughout the time they were there, nobody knew that APC was existing but, now the people know that is Oshiomole is a man you can trust with power andoffice. Immediately he took over, you can see the vibrancy in the leadership of APC, and I am convinced that he will lead the party to victory in 2019”.