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Defends delay in constituting campaign council
From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ajibola Basiru, has dismissed the insinuations that President Bola Tinubu is supporting incumbent governor Charles Soludo for the forthcoming November 8 Anambra State governorship election.
Basiru argued that President Tinubu is politically grounded enough not to engage in anti-party activities by abandoning the candidate of the party, Nicholas Ukachukwu, to support Governor Soludo.
Dismissing the fears and anxiety that President Tinubu is supporting Soludo, judging by the repeated meetings they have held in recent times instead of the APC governorship candidate, the ruling party’s chief scribe thundered: “President Bola Tinubu does not engage in anti-party.”
Basiru equally defended the disturbing delay in constituting the campaign council three months to the governorship poll, insisting that it is not true that the APC leadership is insensitively unenthusiastic about it.
While attributing the delay to the just-concluded legislative by-elections held last weekend, the party’s scribe asked, “Who says we are not enthusiastic about constituting the National Campaign Council? We are putting the final touches on the composition and could have completed it but for the need to pause to concentrate on the by-election just concluded last Saturday.”
“Our party is committed to winning all elections, as you can see with our superlative performance in the recent by-elections across 12 states where we won seats even in states not under the APC government,” he boasted.
Basiru also reacted to the impression from concerned persons that the poor performance of APC in Anambra during the by-elections, where its candidate, Ukachukwu, even lost in his ward, was a sign of rejection of the party, quipping, “We take every election as it comes.”
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