Breaking: APC Govs Back Buhari As Sole Candidate In 2019

Hamilton Nwosa
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Governors elected on the platform of All Progressive Congress (APC), Tuesday, said nobody in the party deserves the party’s Presidential ticket come 2019 but President Muhammadu Buhari.

The governors at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party ongoing at the party’s secretariat, the governors noted that no one else is credible enough in the party to fly the flag of the party for the 2019 election except Buhari.

Speaking separately with newsmen before entering the hall for the NEC meeting, Plateau State Governor, Solomon Lalong, and his Kebbi state counterpart, Atiku Bagudu, told newsmen that Buhari’s achievement in office since 2015 is enough for the party to rely upon to campaign for his second term in 2019.

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