President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole on Friday met behind
closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Oshiomhole speaking with State House correspondents after the
meeting, said that the party’s campaign for the 2019 presidential
election will focus on character and integrity of the candidates.
According to him, “We are fully ready, we have done with our
primaries and filled our nominations. As you know, INEC still has a
window between now and First of January to deal with issues of
substitution. As of campaigns, we are ready.
“We are going to announce the date and programme for our campaigns,
and speak to the issues. My idea of kick off will be the day we will do
our first presidential rally where Mr. President as our candidate and
other candidates, party leaders will assemble in a venue that will be
agreeable to all of us.
“There will be two sets of messages. One, on what we have done in the
past, without failing to remind people of where we were before, what we
are going to do in the next three years, and a couple of things we
believe we will be doing differently.
“Why we are a better choice? President Buhari if compared to the rest
of the aspirants, there is no basis to compare day and night. The real
issue in this election is not going to be religion. It is not going to
be about political party, central to the issue and given our past
experience as a country, we know that what makes a difference is the
character, the issue of integrity of the candidates.
“All those issues of character, especially looking at the past, the
key candidates in the election are not strangers to governance, they are
not even strangers to this villa, so we will be able to ask a couple of
questions about what do they know now that they didn’t know then when
they had power.
“This edition is going to be focusing on character, integrity of
those who want to govern us. In addition to what and how they will do
things differently.” he said