SAN FRANCISCO, May 24, (THEWILL) – The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has reasoned that if politics were to be all about money, the party’s presidential candidate in the 2015 general elections, Muhammadu Buhari will not have been voted into office.
The former Edo governor stated this while receiving a female governorship aspirant in the forthcoming Edo gubernatorial election, Mrs Tina Agbarha, who paid him a visit at the APC national secretariat in Abuja.
While advising the aspirant not to focus much on the role of money in politics, the APC chairman stressed that; “If it were all about money President Muhammadu Buhari would not win.”
He further explained that Buhari was able to win the election he contested against the then incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, because “the people trusted him (Buhari).”
Oyegun then encouraged the governorship aspirant to, as a woman, take her campaigns “very, very seriously”, pledging that the party would give all aspirants a level-playing field by conducting free and fair primaries.
He however called on all aspirants to be ready to collapse their structures behind the flag bearer to stand united in the election.
In an earlier remark, Agbarha commended the chairman for the free nomination and expression of interest forms for women and urged him to create more opportunities for women in the party.
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