I have no personal position beyond the party’s official stand. If the top leadership of APC made a promise that power should move to any place, we should respect it.
We would have no reason not to oblige. But we should look at this and all other issues critically so that APC can survive and succeed further.Let us put a team in place first. If we put a team that can manage APC effectively, that is how we are going to know the impact. There are issues that we have to contend with, but they are not as bad to blur the achievements of the party. A lot depends on how we do our political calculations; a lot depends on where we zone out presidency to.
In 2003, I became party secretary in my state; I was the Director-General of the Muhammadu Buhari presidential campaigns as well as that of Yerima’s governorship campaign as well as that of every other person who was contesting on the platform of defunct ANPP. We won seats in the State House of Assembly and National Assembly 100 per cent and we won governorship election. In 2004, I became the state chairman of the party and our success stories continued.
This is where we are today and at the same time in 2015, my colleague governors unanimously accepted me to be the chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum . If you look at what we have done in the past and what is on ground now, the issue or responsibilities of chairmanship will not be a difficult task for me to deal with because I know the right buttons to press to bring people together and win elections.I hear that also.
I’m not contesting any leadership. It is the people who made me to be their leader and they will continue to call me leader as long as I am alive. It is not about APC. When I was a governor, I never called myself leader. Even as a sitting governor, there was someone I was addressing as ‘leader’ and he knows; I called him Jagora. Jagora is leader.
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