ABUJA – GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha of Imo State yesterday said that there will be no automatic ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 election if he decides to seek re-election.
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Governor said that the process that will produce any candidate in the All Progressives Congress, APC, must be democratic and transparent. Speaking to State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Buhari, the Imo State Governor said though the President was constitutionally qualified to contest, every interested contestants must pass through a transparent and democratic process. Fielding question whether he was lending his voice to those that were calling on the President to run in 2019, he said there was nothing wrong about that. He said, “There is nothing wrong.
The gentleman is looking much more handsome than even before he went to hospital. He is looking stronger and so he has every right and qualification to contest, there is nothing wrong at all. “But we don’t allow imposition of candidates, it must be democratically done. If President Buhari will lead the ship in 2019, it must be democratically done and I say democratically done, transparently to the amazement of the whole world, the way it will take place and the way we do our thing in APC.
“President Buhari is qualified constitutionally to run and good thing he is in good health, stronger than he has ever been. I think the hospital he went was a mere exercise to strengthen his nerves and bones.” Okorocha who is Chairman of the APC Governors Forum otherwise called progressive forum said he was at the State House to see the President on some political issues as it affected the South East geopolitical zone. He said, “I have come to see Mr. President and to discuss politics as it affects the South East and APC and the way forward and the politics of APC as it also concerns the governance. “It was a very fruitful meeting was the opinion that more efforts should be made in the South East to really let the people understand the APC roll in Nigeria and in the South East. “So Mr. President was quite receptive and was quite happy with the the deliberation that we just had upward of 45 minutes.” On the way forward after the meeting, Okorocha said, “The way forward is that South East before now was not majorly in APC but we have worked out strategies and modalities on how to improve relationship between the people of South East and APC government.
“And that is top on the agenda and the need for Mr. President to come to the South East as quickly as possible to begin to show his presence and luckily Mr. President will come to Ebony soon very soon. “He will pass through Imo State to Anambra State. So covering three states within this short time is a right step in right direction because we have come to realize in the South East that we are better off in APC than any other party in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/president-buhari-will-lead-ship-2019-must-okorocha/
ABUJA – GOVERNOR Rochas
Okorocha of Imo State yesterday said that there will be no automatic
ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 election if he decides to
seek re-election.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/president-buhari-will-lead-ship-2019-must-okorocha/
ABUJA – GOVERNOR Rochas
Okorocha of Imo State yesterday said that there will be no automatic
ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 election if he decides to
seek re-election.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/president-buhari-will-lead-ship-2019-must-okorocha/