MR Kolawole Akinlayo, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a House of Representatives aspirant, has said the party has all it needed to return to power in 2019 elections.
In a statement issued on Thursday, he said the recent defections of some notable party members to opposition parties were not enough rock on the boat of the APC in the next elections.
He added that all the party leaders needed to do was to work hard and present people of proven integrity to the electorate in the 2019 general election.
“The defections will not affect our party, depending on how our party leadership addresses the issue. It was like a coalition of forces by some politicians across the country with the intention to wrest power from President Muhammadu Buhari, but such won’t affect the party in the 2019 general elections.
“Though, one will be worried seeing eminent people like the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, former Kano State governor, Senator Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso, Governors Aminu Tambuwal, Samuel Ortom and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Sokoto, Benue and Kwara states, respectively, going to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but re-electing President Buhari for another term rests primarily on Nigerians to decide and not the sole prerogative of the Senate President and other politicians who are now boasting as if Nigeria belongs to them.
“I want to applaud the national leadership of the party, led by Adams Oshiomhole, for wooing former Akwa Ibom State governor, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to APC. Akpabio’s defection to APC had neutralised whatever effects Saraki and others’ defections must have caused the ruling party, taking cognisance the respect the former minority leader commands in Nigeria’s politics.
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“The party leaders, at both state and national levels, are already repositioning the party, the people of means are defecting to APC. They said APC was not popular in Edo, Ondo and Ekiti states, but the party won elections in those states.
“Now, they are bragging that President Buhari won’t be re-elected. We will all be alive when our party will win the 2019 elections with a landslide victory.
“Let PDP and defectors understand that President Buhari’s re-election became a done deal the moment elections in Ondo, Ekiti and Edo states were won,” he said.
Kolawole said the people of Ekiti North Federal Constituency II were behind his ambition, saying the people were disenchanted with the present representative, who he said was too old to give them any meaningful representation.
“Let me, first of all, say that the chances of APC are very high in that constituency, because the 79-year-old man, Honourable Thaddeus Aina, who is representing the constituency now has not given effective representation. He has not called a meeting once to tell his people what he has done.
“Apart from this, he had not raised any motion or sponsors any bill or even contributes to discussions on the floor of the National Assembly since 2015 when he was elected,” he said.
How long shall this Fulani terrorist government last with their agent of terror?
U will b put to shame
Mumu….ur papa dey eat human being to survive…u self want to folow them..u beter dont run mad.
2023
Power of God
By using the Police to buy votes.
That is 4 sure
One moron in a bus said the same thing.
Noooooo is very big liar
Mr postter are u no how to fork woman without pay any fees if u no are steady do him because u never wake up for ur dream att all a p c u are talk its a dead body party they can win state talkilest national
Please please keep your mouth sh…………………..t abeg
See how your bele full, why you no go talk nonsense
That will omly be possible with INEC collusion and we shall resist
Tswww joke of the Day
Day dreaming
Sure
Ur papa dey craze
SURE .
I concour
Toy mouth always go the way type of u speak
Ur are a nusance…ur salary is 1500
See pple wa money go choke to death dis yr ni da talk of 2019