Senator Bukola Saraki of All Progressives Congress has dismissed what he termed People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) propaganda that All Progressives Congress (APC) will not be stand the rigour of a presidential primary.
The senator maintained that all presidential candidates of the APC party had given their words to maintain peace and order before, during and after the primaries.
While speaking to journalists on Monday at Ilorin, Senator Saraki said he believed would emerge stronger from the primaries
Saraki said, “This is the propaganda from the opposition. I want to assure Nigerians that the fact we are going to have the primaries should not in any way disintegrate the party. I believe that even such primaries will help to unify the party. We saw it during the era of Social Democratic Party; after the primaries, the party did not disintegrate, rather it made the party stronger.
“Even in the early days of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Alex Ekwueme had primaries and the party did not disintegrate. I can open up and tell you that I have had the opportunity to sit with General Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso. There are assurances from them that
whichever way the primary goes, they will support whoever emerges as the candidate.
“When we started to merge with the legacy parties, the opposition said the party will disintegrate with the merger. After that they said that by the time we go for national convention the party would disintegrate, yet none happened.
“The party will not disintegrate because we are all making sacrifices every day. It is not easy to come together to take on a government with this level of impunity. We are all doing this because we truly believe that this is the best way for Nigeria. I have utmost confidence that whoever emerges as the presidential flag bearer for APC, we will rally round the person.”
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