Eniola Olayemi
All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will receive a lot of vote from Igbos in 2019 due to the numerous projects he has carried out in the south east region.
Daily Independent reports that Lanre Issa-Onilu who is the national publicity secretary of the APC said despite President Buhari getting fewer votes in the region, he has embarked on series of projects there.
He said the visit of southeast governors to the president where they showed appreciation to him and begged him to do more for the region showed the prospect of support he would get from the region.
He said: “The South-East governors recently visited the president. They said they want to thank him for what he has done in the region and they are asking for more.
“We have a president that is not discriminatory when it comes to delivery of the gains of democracy to Nigerians.
“The South-East people can see roads, housing scheme, and other infrastructure. Go to the capital of all the South-East states, you will see the massive projects that are going on there. “So, the governors of the region came to thank the president.
You also could see that because of his deep feelings for the ordinary Nigerians, the president came out with bail-out funds.
“Bail-out funds have criteria with which it can be assessed. Being an APC governor is not one of the criteria.
“Number of votes you gave to President Buhari in 2015 is not one of the criteria. The criteria are only that you are part of Nigeria and the common people in your street deserve attention.
“Many South-East traders today are benefitting from the Tradermoni scheme. This money was realised from Abacha’s loot. This is not the first time Abacha’s loot will be recovered.
“The ones that were recovered in the past under PDP governments were used to buy private jets, but under this government, the money is going into the pockets of the ordinary man.
“So, the difference between the PDP and this government is that President Buhari is focusing on the ordinary Nigerian and doing things that will greatly impact on their lives.
“But PDP government, during their era, focused on the few elite and they were measuring success and economic developments by the numbers of private jets they purchased.
“Now, under the APC government, we are measuring success and economic developments by the number of common people the Social Investment Programme is touching.
“We are measuring it by the number of school pupils who are being fed daily in our schools. “The South-East is benefiting from all these and as such I am confident that they will give their votes to President Buhari in 2019.”
Meanwhile, Atiku Abubakar who is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that Igbos will not be deceived by the promise of 2023 presidency by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Daily Independent reports that Atiku speaking through Segun Sowunmi, the spokesman of his campaign, said President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC would not honour their pledge to zone their 2023 presidency to the southeast if they support them in 2019..
