By ATINUKE OGUNPOLU
The Nigeria’s Presidency has said that the outcome of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s American-style direct presidential primaries on Friday 28th of September 2018, held across the states of the Federation, with President Muhammadu Buhari as the sole aspirant is a major boost to his success at next year’s general election.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, who made this assertion in a statement he issued in Abuja on Saturday copy of which was sent to The DEFENDER, said the huge turnout of registered party members at all the voting centres confirmed what he described as incomparable ability of the President Buhari to reach out to people and mobilize votes.
According to the statement, “In a more direct way, the huge turnout of millions of registered party members at all voting centres proves that the President has an incomparable ability to reach out to people and mobilise votes.
“It is significant that President Buhari has won a major victory, fair and square through direct nationwide primary, a system that seeks to break the mould. The President has shown that you don’t have to be a party owner or go through a difficult inner party consensus to emerge as candidate.
“Beyond this being a victory for the party and the President, it is a message to everyone that development and good governance are more important to our people than divide and rule politics.
“The message in the air from this unique achievement by the APC is that all true democratic parties in the country need to start raising their act by copying the leadership of the President.
“We thank everyone for their role in bringing about this victory.”
