The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos
State, has declared that there is no vacancy in Aso Rock in 2019,
insisting that all the presidential candidates put together will not be
able to unseat President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to
Igbokwe, the ruling APC would not lose sleep over the emergence of
former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), the main opposition party, stressing that the
contest was going to be between integrity versus corruption.
Igbokwe told newsmen in Lagos that Nigerians cannot trust Atiku because of the many cases of corruption hanging around his neck.
He
said, “Let me put it this way, all the presidential candidates put
together, both the serious and the unserious, will not be able to unseat
Buhari.
“The contest is going to be between integrity versus
corruption. And if that is going to be the parameter to judge, it means
that there is no vacancy in Aso Rock. If corruption and integrity were
to be in contest, then integrity must win. If integrity must win,
therefore, Aso Rock is not vacant for now.
“There is no meeting
point between light and darkness. We cannot trust Atiku with the keys of
the national treasury given his antecedent. I don’t know whether you
have watched Obasanjo’s video on Atiku.
“If there is anybody
that knows Atiku very well, that person must be Obasanjo because they
worked together for eight years. Obasanjo said some Americans came
probably from FBI and said that they wanted to investigate some
Nigerians and Atiku was one of them.
“After that, Obasanjo was
also inclusive, but they couldn’t find anything on him. Meanwhile, on
Atiku, there was a damning report. And given what Obasanjo knows about
the findings of those people, he said that God would not forgive him if
he supports Atiku. If Obasanjo says that kind of thing, then we cannot
trust Atiku with the keys of the national treasury.
“Another
point is what played out in Port Harcourt at the PDP national
convention. It was a bazaar. It was an audacious and thunderous
celebration of corruption, where dollars were used with reckless abandon
to buy delegates’ votes. We cannot have that kind of person in the
saddle. His wealth is questionable. Also remember that PDP told
Nigerians that they had repented and pleaded that they should be given
another chance.”
