APC convention: Why Nigerian govt endorsed Oshiomhole as party chairman – SGF, Mustapha
Mustapha, yesterday gave reasons the Federal Government was solidly
behind Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as the next national chairman of the
All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said Oshiomhole was the man the party needed to lead it to victory
in the 2019 general elections.
DAILY POST reports that Oshiomhole is unopposed in the bid to take
over from Chief John Odigie-Oyegun as chairman of the ruling party
However, Mustapha pointed out that Oshiomhole became the chosen one
due to his track record.
He further explained that the nature of the electioneering for 2019
will be slightly different from that of 2015 as APC will be showing
its scorecards to the electorate as against making promises that was
the case in 2015.
He told journalists yesterday in Abuja: "With skills and experience as
a former labour leader and former governor of a tough state,
Oshiomhole was well-positioned to provide the leadership that APC
requires at the moment. I believe he has got all it takes to lead our
party in the future.
"So, I have come to encourage him because I believe we need somebody
like him at the moment to give the purposeful leadership that we
require," Mustapha said.
"I believe Comrade (Oshiomhole) has got the tenacity, the intellectual
ability and the organisational skills having been a labour leader and
served as a governor for eight years in a very difficult state like
Edo. He will be able to take us and usher us to a brighter 2019," the
SGF added.
"We are a democratic party. Nobody is going to be gagged. Nobody is
going to be stopped from contesting any office. But you know as part
of the election processes, there are negotiations and there are
agreements and there are consensus building mechanisms that have been
put in place.
"The beauty about the APC is that we came from different legacy
parties but we deployed all the available skills and resources that we
had to craft our constitution to also craft the manifesto and even the
election manifesto.
"Comrade (Oshiomhole) was a very fundamental part of it. So he
understands the working of the party because he participated in the
crafting of these instruments that we are using. The truth about it is
that in every party and in every system, the supremacy of the party is
always non-negotiable because that is the platform that produces
everybody."
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