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Oshiomhole meets Buhari on APC campaign strategies..& 2 other issues

President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, met on Friday in Abuja.

The agenda of the closed-door meeting was the take-off date of the party’s campaigns for the 2019 general elections.and partial sideline discussion on his bribery scandal and On the crisis facing APC primaries.

Oshiomhole, said, “We are fully ready; we are done with our primaries and filed our nominations.
“We are going to announce the date and programme for our campaigns, and speak to the issues.
My idea of kick-off will be the day we will do our first presidential rally where Mr President as our candidate and other candidates, party leaders will assemble in a venue that will be agreeable to all of us.

He added, “Why we are a better choice? President Buhari, if compared to the rest of the aspirants, there is no basis to compare day and night. The real issue in this election is not going to be religion. It is not going to be about political party.

Oshiomhole also dismissed the allegations of corruption levelled against him by Senator Shehu Sani.

Sani had accused him of collecting bribe up to $2 million to manipulate the senatorial primaries of Kaduna Central zone.

On the crisis facing the Imo APC governorship candidate, Senator Hope Uzodimma, he said there was no crisis.

He said: “What is the crisis? That somebody won and somebody lost and the person who lost said no, no, no, I am the son-in-law to the governor, I can’t lose, and therefore we have crisis?

“Go to Imo and find out. Go to the markets, mechanic workshops or even the civil servants in Imo and ask how they think on the issue of son-in-law.

“Look at the crowd that received Senator Hope Uzodimma. It was a mixture of both rejection of dynasty vis a vis the natural support base that Hope has.

“Haven’t you seen on social media how excited Imolites erected the statue of Oshiomhole, although the body is big.”

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