Ahead of the 2023 general election, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said he would only support candidates of the ruling APC at all levels and no one else.
He has also cautioned his aides against unguarded remarks.
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Team@orientactualmags.com learned Buhari , who said this in a statement by his media aide, Mallam Garba Shehu, noted that he will support only candidates fielded by the APC in the forthcoming elections.
The statement was titled, ‘For 2023, No Villa Candidates, only APC Candidates’ .
Buhari has reassured APC members that he remains a ‘disciplined soldier’ of the party.
Shehu said the president assured that he would continue to support the party at all levels to enforce discipline, synchronization and coordination.
He added that President Buhari has also directed officials in and around the Presidential Villa and all those engaging in loose talks to avoid controversial comments that would eventually hurt the party and the government, thereby providing a weapon for the opposition to use against the administration, the party or its candidates in the coming elections.
The presidential spokesman said this was a warning to party members that decamped to other political parties and some others who were still in court against official candidates of the APC that they are on their own adding that anyone , who is no longer an official member of the APC, should not link whatever they do to President Buhari.
He said the president wished to be quoted as saying that he remains the ‘Occupant of the high office of the president by the Grace of God who used the instrumentality of the APC to bring him to power with a historic verdict in 2015.
In 2019, he was returned with a bigger majority. For the first time, a non-PDP government came to power with a huge majority after 16 years of the Fourth Republic. His constant refrain is:
I will not betray or undermine my party by supporting candidates other than those of the APC.
This statement is not against any particular candidate. However, our stand is clear that only those candidates fielded by the All Progressives Candidates, APC will enjoy the support of the president and they are the ones he will campaign for. However, we welcome support for our candidates at all levels by other parties’ the statement added.
The statement was sequel to insinuations that some APC bigwigs would secretly support PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, against the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu- Team@orientactualmags.com
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