*Says Buhari’s minister unfair over 2019 comment
ADDS:
-Buhari-led FG doing well on economy to be re-elected 2019
-Electricity generation remarkably improved
-Prices of food items, other essentials also reducing.
*Treat Alhassan like Fayose, Fani-Kayode – Ogun Resident
Aganaba spoke just as some respondents observed that if Presidents like Muhammadu Buhari and party like APC had been the type at the helms of affair of Nigeria since the return of democratic rule in 1999, the country’s effort toward becoming developed nation would have neared achievement if not fully achieved.
A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Preye Aganaba, has said that the party has no choice than to represent President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerians for re-election in 2019.
Aganaba, who was a Senatorial candidate on the platform of the party in the 2015 election in Bayelsa, stated this while speaking with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
Aganaba spoke just as some respondents observed that if Presidents like Muhammadu Buhari and party like APC had been the type at the helms of affair of Nigeria since the return of democratic rule in 1999, the country’s effort toward becoming developed nation would have neared achievement if not fully achieved.
According to the politician, the Buhari-led Federal Government is doing well to fix the country’s economy, and to this end, he should be re-elected in 2019.
He added that electricity generation in the country had remarkably improved, while prices of food items and other essentials were also reducing.
“I am not bothered about the economy because that will be fixed; for me, I’m looking at the politics of various zones, because that will determine our winning the election,’’ Aganaba said.
He expressed optimism that with Buhari as APC candidate in 2019 in spite of his perceived health condition, the party would win the general elections, including presidential.
‘’I don’t think the president is terminally ill; like every other human being, he fell sick. The difference here is that he is the president, so you begin to hear stories.
“But he is back; I saw him yesterday and he is looking very fresh, at least, he rested very well in Daura,’’ he said.
Aganaba said that APC leadership had the ability to resolve crisis at different levels of the party ahead of the 2019 general elections.
On the report credited to Minister of Women Affairs, Sen. Aisha Alhassan, where she expressed her loyalty to the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, he said that she had a right to her choice.
“She has a right to her choice, but I think she is not being fair; if she wants to make such public statement as a serving minister, she should resign her appointment,’’ he said.
The minister had in a BBC Hausa Service interview said that she would support the former vice president if he decided to contest for the presidency in 2019.
In the meantime, A resident of Ogun State, Idris Adeniran Asorona, has advised the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, and other media aides of the Presidency to simply use silence as cane to flog the Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, who publicly declared that Buhari or not she would support former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for President in 2019.
Asorona, is one of The DEFENDER’s respondents that has ventilated their anger about the minister’s attitude.
He said, “Please help me use your online media platform to tell Mr. Femi Adesina, Mallam Garba Shehu, Mrs Laurrenta Onochie and other media aides of the President to just ignore the Women Affairs Minister, Alhassan, for her comment declaring support for Atiku against Buhari. Do you know what is wrong in what she did? Aisha Alhassan has declared war against the inner caucus to which she belongs. The best way to deal with her the beautiful the President’s aides has ignored the Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose and Femi Fani-Kayode over their senseless vituperation, being that it is said the best way to deal with a fool is silence,” he said.
