President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) to work towards retaining power come 2023.
He spoke during a meeting with APC governors at the State House on March 23, ahead of the party’s national convention.
According to The Punch, Buhari said it will be disastrous if the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) returns to power in 2023. The president specifically told the governors to put the interest of the APC ahead of theirs.
He said: “As I remarked when I met Your Excellencies on February 22, our aim must be to hand over to an APC government at the centre and the great majority of states.
We must not, by default, allow the PDP to get its dirty hands on the Government again and return us to the Stone Age.”
President Buhari who said the APC had done considerably well in the last seven years despite the economic challenges also called for unity among the governors.
He said: “It will be a very sad and regrettable development if these manifest gains are frittered away as a result of internal dissent and rivalry. We must avoid narrow focus and inordinate personal ambitions at the expense of our party’s common good.
We must stop frivolous and diversionary litigation when the party’s reconciliation processes are available for settling disputes.We must restore sanity and purpose in the affairs of our party and lead ourselves to victory and safety.”
