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  • APC campaign council warns Ondo members against anti-party activities

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council of President Muhammadu Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has warned party members in Ondo State against anti-party activities.

    A statement yesterday in Akure, the state capital, by a member of the council’s Strategic and Communications Committee, Omo’ba Abayomi Adesanya, said the party was “aware of the surreptitious and clandestine anti-party activities of some prominent party chieftains and senior government officials and appointees working against the interest of our great party in the forthcoming general elections in Ondo State”.

    It warned party executives, members and political appointees using their positions and portfolios to canvass vote for the candidate of Action Alliance (AA), instead of the party’s candidates, to desist from the act.

    The party said it was the ship that brought them to power through its platform.

    It warned that any unholy alliance is sacrilegious and not unacceptable in the state.

    “The council, on behalf of the President and his Vice, appreciates the commitment and loyalty of our party men and women, all Nigerians, for their support and steadfastness in keeping fate with this government.

    “The council implores all our party members and supporters in all the 3,009 polling units, 203 wards across the 18 local government areas of the state to assiduously work and vote for all APC candidates on February 16 in the general elections beginning with the presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the senators representing Ondo South, North and Central, Yele Omogunwa, Prof. Ajayi Boroffice and Tayo Alasoadura, all the APC candidates for the House of Representatives in the nine Federal constituencies and the House of Assembly.

    “The campaign council advises all our loyal party members and chieftains to be vigilant in their various polling units and wards to keep records of anybody, no matter how highly placed, who perpetrates and indulges in anti-party activities in the state.”

     

  • APC Campaign Council Co-operate with Tinubu, says Rep

    The appointment of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC),  Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the Co-chairman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council is a challenge to party members in the South West and he should be given much co-operation.

    This assertion was made by a member of the House of Representatives from Lagos, Dr Enitan Dolapo Badru, while addressing party members in the Olowogbowo area of Lagos Island.

    The lawmaker charged party members at the meeting to redouble their efforts to give the party landslide victory during the elections by ensuring that all registered voters use their PVCs positively for the APC.

    Dr Badru, who used the opportunity of the meeting to distribute foodstuffs and give cash to members of the APC in the area as end-of-the-year and New Year gifts, stated that party members must tell the world through the elections that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is the strongest politician in the country.

    Dr Dolapo, who is also the APC candidate for the House of Representatives from the Lagos Island Federal Constituency One, thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for the honour given to Asiwaju Tinubu through his appointment as the Co-chairman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.

    He added that Tinubu’s name would be boldly written with gold in the country’s political history .The lawmaker also congratulated the party’s national leader and assured him of the party members’ support .

    Responding on behalf of the party members, an APC stalwart in Olowogbowo, Alhaji Ganiyu Salam Otolo, expressed gratitude to the lawmaker for being the good representative of the people at the National Assembly.

    He stated that what people had benefited from his representation were numerous and assured him of his re-election.

    Otolo said party members would work to ensure victory for all party candidates on Lagos Island

  • Dangote not a member of APC campaign council, says Presidency

    The Presidency yesterday said that frontline business man, Alhaji  Aliko Dangote, is not a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council.

    The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said in a statement that “it has become imperative to further clarify the status of Alhaji Aliko Dangote, named under the sub-head ADVISORY MEMBERS in the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council announced on Friday, December 28, 2018.

    “Africa’s richest man, not being a card-carrying member of APC, cannot, and is not member of the PCC. He is also a member of the Peace Committee, and thus cannot be in a partisan campaign council.”

     

  • APC Campaign Council slams PDP for grandstanding on poll

    The war of words between the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the Osun State governorship election continued yesterday. The APC Campaign Council described as “excessive grandstanding” the call by the PDP for the declaration of its candidate as the winner.

    In a statement issued in Lagos, the Chairman of the Council’s Media Committee, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, decried what he called the PDP’s descent into hysteria after INEC announced that the election was inconclusive. He said this reinforced the council’s earlier statement that the opposition party was in the panic mode prior to the election, and that it had no confidence in the institutions saddled with organising the polls.

    The council said rather than resort to threats, the PDP could either go to court or decide not to participate in Thursday’s supplementary election.

    What the PDP cannot and must not do, the Council said, is to engage in brigandage or to employ tactics that can short-circuit the democratic process.

    INEC declared the election inconclusive because the number of cancelled votes exceeded the difference between the two top candidates. Ademola Adeleke of the PDP is leading, having scored 254,698 votes.

    APC’s Gboyega Oyetola got 254,345 votes. There will be a rerun in seven polling units.

    The APC said: “‘In its time, there would have been no room for a supplementary election in Osun because the PDP would have used state institutions to hijack the election proper, as it did in Ekiti in 2014. But in its deafening hysteria, the PDP pretends not to understand the real meaning of the outcome of the Osun election: That the ruling APC did nothing to prevent the state institutions that organised the election from carrying out their duties, in the spirit of true democracy.”

    “Local and foreign observers have hailed INEC and the security agencies for a well-organised election. We join them in this commendation. Our confidence in the ability of the relevant state institutions involved in the Osun election remains unshaken. So also is our belief that every disagreement resulting from the election must be resolved through the democratic process, rather than a resort to threats of fire and brimstone,’’ the Council said.

    It described as “selective amnesia” the “jaundiced” analysis by compromised, pay-as-you-go analysts, party hacks and renowned professional riggers masquerading as democrats who pretend not to remember that the APC was leading the PDP massively (by over 40,000 votes) in the 2015 Kogi governorship election when INEC declared the election inconclusive.

    ‘’Rather than resort to threats, like the PDP is doing now, the APC simply submitted to the democratic process and the supplementary election was peacefully conducted in 91 polling units across 18 of the 21 local governments in the state. Where were these emergency, ready-for-hire analysts then?’’ the Council queried.

    It praised Osun State residents for deepening democracy by eschewing violence and exercising their franchise in an orderly manner last Saturday, and urged voters in the areas to be covered by the supplementary election to also ensure a peaceful process on Thursday.