Rivers State governor and Director-General of the All
Progressives Congress Presidential campaign Organization, APCPCO, Mr. Chibuike
Ameachi has said that the APC would make a difference in the political
governance of Nigeria.
He added that where the ruling People’s Democratic Party,
PDP has failed, APC would succeed having learnt from the outside.
This was even as the national publicity secretary of APC,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed said that the integrity of the presidential candidate,
General Mohammad Buhari won the vote for APC.
Both men spoke with Journalists at the national secretariat
of APC amid excitement of an anticipated victory Buhari
BRIEFING: Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State during a
Press briefing on poltically motivated violence and deaths in Rivers State.
yesterday.
Ameachi further stated that APC would be magnanimous in
victory.
He said: We will be magnanimous in victory because the
challenges are much. It is not
only about celebration of victory, it is about
seriousness of governance and we must show the different between us and the
current government. If we say there was incompetence, we must show competence.
“If we say there was corruption, we must show that we will
not be corrupt. If we say that people were denied of their basic right, we must
protect their rights. If we say there was impunity, we must govern by the rule
of law, and once we show that Nigerians will see the different between us and
the current government.”
When asked to explain what the victory meant to him, Ameachi
said: “Quiet a lot. As the Director-General of the campaign, it is good to me.
I will begin to tell my children that for the first time in
the history of Nigeria, the opposition party was able to root out the
government in power and the party in power by presenting a different picture of
what life looks like for giving the people the courage to confront the current
government and confront what was going on.
Confront corruption, confront the reality of the fact that
Nigerians are hungry, that they don’t go to market as Nigerians do, they have
the kind of fund and can eat the kind of food they want and Nigerians are
hungry, to let Nigerians know that Boko Haram was not about religion alone but
there
was poverty and hunger and we have to deal with education and the issue
of unemployment in the
North and also in the south, and to also make people
realise that religion is not an issue in Nigeria.
Also speaking, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said “Buhari’s strong
personality, character and integrity, his anti-corruption stance for which he
has been known for so many years now, helped to make this victory easier for
us.
“We would have lost woefully. Buhari made our victory very
easy. He is a major factor in the land mark victory. It has never happened that
an incumbent is defeated in a national election”.
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