Some governors serving on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are alleged to have joined their All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts to declare support for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari during the February 19, 2019 general election.
Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau State spoke Friday in Jos after returning from a meeting with the President in Abuja, said “We are now just waiting to swear-in Mr. President in 2019 from what I saw today.”
President Buhari on Friday met behind closed doors with 36 state governors on the lingering disagreement between them and organised labour on the proposed N30,000 national minimum wage.
Lalong said, “I am just coming back from Abuja. Today, the governors went to greet Mr. President; both the APC and the PDP governors. We were surprised, we thought it’s only the APC governors that like President Buhari, but when we got there every body praised President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Both the APC and the PDP governors said Mr. President has done very well for the country. They told the President, you have rescued Nigeria from crisis and poverty. And they concluded that may God help you and may God help us as well.”
The governor, who also commissioned his campaign office for his 2019 re-election bid along Yakubu Gowon Road, Jos, said he was overwhelmed by the turn out, adding that it was a testimony that Plateau people wanted him to continue is good works in the state.
Also speaking at the event, Mr. Latep Dabang, the state APC chairman, warned that the campaign office was not meant for the commissioners to come and hang around, ordering them to go to their various local governments and campaign among the grassroots and deliver their councils to APC in the elections.
Dabang also declared that the APC campaign office was the most prominent in the state, noting that other parties can only copy from the APC.
