The Governor of Imo state, Rochas Owelle Okorocha has said the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to seek reelection in 2019 would go a long way in silencing the voices of opposition elements in the country. The Chairman of Progressives Governors Forum made his position known in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary Sam Onwuemeodo.
The Governor described the declaration by the president as a patriotic response to the clarion call of Nigerians of goodwill.
The statement read in part;
“The declaration of the president to go for Second tenure would also go a long way to reduce the noise of the opposition and take care of the idiosyncrasies of certain elements in the system.
The APC has no apology to make because it has done wonderfully well considering the magnitude of the rot it met on ground in 2015. The antenna of the opposition in the country will finally be lowered when the campaigns begin and the party will be showing Nigerians its achievements in the states under its control and at the federal level.
He further said “those who had wanted to blackmail him out of going for another term can now find other meaningful things to keep themselves busy,” Insisting that the President “would largely garner more votes in 2019 than he had done in 2015 because most Nigerians, including people of the Southeast have seen that he meant well for the nation and the citizenry."
Recall that the President made his decision to contest the 2019 presidential election known on Monday at the National Executive Committee meeting of the All progressives Congress.
