The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has said the party would win the 2019 elections without the support of Ogun state governor Ibikunle Amosun and his Imo state counterpart, Rochas Okorocha.

Both governors are at loggerheads with Mr Oshiomole over the outcome of the party’s governorship primary election in their respective state.

According to him, the governors are poor students of their own history who had forgotten they lost elections before winning on the platform of APC.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has said the party would win the 2019 elections without the support of Ogun state governor Ibikunle Amosun and his Imo state counterpart, Rochas Okorocha.

Both governors are at loggerheads with Mr Oshiomole over the outcome of the party’s governorship primary election in their respective state.

According to him, the governors are poor students of their own history who had forgotten they lost elections before winning on the platform of APC.

He said, “We know there are people across the divide who are fighting back. There is a gang up by those who are used to sucking the system without adding any value but Nigerians will not allow that.”

On the election, the party chairman boasted that the 2019 election would be a smooth sail for President Muhammadu Buhari and APC because ethnic and religious sentiments that characterised the 2015 election lost by former president Goodluck Jonathan would have no play this time around.

“The two candidates are from the North and they are both Muslims. People are now going to look at character. Nobody has ever said Buhari is a thief. But who said the other person (Atiku) is a thief? it was his boss (Obasanjo).

“When you are working with me and I said you are a thief, God will punish me if I support you. And when you are confused because your supply line has been chopped off, you now turned around to support the same person. That God that you called with your name to punish you if you support the person is about to go to work. And He will go to work in February and HE will punish him thoroughly and the person he is supporting, in favour of Nigeria.”

He alleged that the popularity of APC in Ogun and Imo had soared despite the alleged anti-party activities of their governors.

•Excerpted from a New Telegraph report

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