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4+4years: President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice Yemi Osinbajo, APC Senators, Former Governors, ministers with a cross-section of APC NEC Members and Presidential Campaign Council Team during the Inauguration of 2019 Presidential Campaign Council held at the International Conference Centre in Abuja.
He advised the ruling party to imbibe the traditions of party democracy which appropriates the spoils of office when elections are contested and won for the purpose of running an inclusive government and to accommodate divergent interests within the party. He argued that the zone since the Second Republic has continued to play a strategic role in representative government and has been the bridge between the northern and the southern part of the country.
He said: “To forestall the rebellion act that upset the apple cart in 2015 which produced the Senate President and the Speaker from North Central and North East respectively which never had our backing; the national leadership of the APC must ensure that it does not inflict a sufficient damage on itself, which consequences can be better imagined in the selection and election of principal officers of the 9th House of Representatives.
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