2019: APC will win Ogun, Imo without Amosun, Okorocha – Oshiomole boasts

– APC’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday, December 5, boasted that the party will win 2019 polls in Ogun and Imo

– Oshiomhole said that with the popularity of the APC in the Nigeria, the governors of both states are not needed for the victory of the ruling party

– He said that people should respect institutions and laws, not the so called powerful persons in the country

Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that going by the fame of the ruling party in Imo and Ogun, victory is sure in the states in 2019 elections despite the alleged anti-party activities of their governors.

He described the Rochas Okorocha and Ibikunle Amosun as poor students of their own history who had forgotten they lost elections before winning on the platform of the APC, Punch reports.

Oshiomhole said this as he received the APC women leaders from Edo state and Abuja, who paid him a solidarity visit in Aso Drive.

Okorocha, Amosun and Governor Abdul-Aziz Yari of Zamfara are reportedly at odds with Oshiomhole over his refusal to recognise their preferred gubernatorial candidates.

The APC national chairman said: “Those who think our political future is tied to them; they are poor students of their own political history. Some of these people who talk as if they are invincible, they have forgotten that they have run elections in the past and lost until they abandoned their parties and joined us. So if they return back, history will repeat itself.”

“Whether you are a big or small man, the rules are not supposed to discriminate. Our popularity in Imo and Ogun today is much higher. It is not that once you are a governor you have high electoral value.

“Yes in APC, our governors have high electoral value but we also a few who are electoral liabilities.”

Oshiomhole stated that Nigeria ought to return to the era where institutions were respected and protected not the high and mighty.

He added that the actions of the two governors would not affect the fortunes of the party in the elections.

Oshiomhole stated: “In Imo state today, APC will win more votes. My focus is on ordinary Imo voters because on that day, the governor would have only one vote, his son-in-law would have only one vote while his Commissioner for Happiness would have only one vote.

“But artisans, traders, teachers and workers whose salaries are not being paid have the same weight of vote and they are excited about the renewed possibility of a new government coming with fresh ideas free of all the encumbrances of the present system. So in Imo I’m very confident.

“Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is from Ogun State. The state is one of the most enlightened States in Nigeria. They have a huge history; they are not in a political kingdom headed by one person.”

“If they were looking for true reconciliation, they wouldn’t have done what they did (defection of aides). That is not how democracy works. Nigeria must grow beyond this syndrome ‘I’m the governor, I will decide.’ You have only one vote. With due respect, I was once a governor. Overall APC is much stronger now.”

Meanwhile, TRACK NEWS gathered that four state governors of the APC were reportedly set to fight Adams Oshiomhole.

The state governors – Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara; Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo; Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna and Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun, have accused the national leadership of the party of imposition of candidates.