Muhammadu Buhari has received a letter of endorsement from the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) as its presidential candidate for the 2019 general elections.
Reports have it that the letter was presented to the president by Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun, who was accompanied by the APM Chairman, Alhaji Yusuf Dantalle, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Speaking to State House Correspondents after a closed door meeting with the president, Amosun said the endorsement letter was given to him by the party for onward presentation to the president.
He expressed hope that with the endorsement, President Buhari, whom he described as a man with good heart, would receive massive votes in the 2019 presidential elections.
He said: “You will recall that just last week we made public that APM has adopted President Buhari as their presidential candidate.
“I had promised to bring the letter they had given me to present to him and that is what we came to do today. And you know Mr President is a very gracious human being, he is a man with a good heart.
“He (Buhari) said if a party has adopted him, it is only fair he acknowledges the party and the chairman. That is why we are here.
“I have said that anybody that is for President Muhammadu Buhari is for me, we will embrace such party, such persons, such organization wholeheartedly and that is what I am doing and that is what we are doing in Ogun State.
“Clearly Mr President will have a massive vote in Ogun State in the coming election.”
Amosun, who promisd to ensure electoral success for President Buhari in Ogun during the 2019 general election, however, refused to comment on the threat by the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiohmole, to remove him from APC.
“I don’t want to comment on that. We came for this, let’s restrict ourselves to this. I want my president to win, what else do you want? We must win that is it!”
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