2019 Elections: APC Chairman, John Oyegun Reveals When Buhari will Announce His Decision

Posted by Odinaka on Fri 08th Sep, 2017 - tori.ng

Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the National Chairman of the APC, has said President Muhammadu Buhari will disclose his decision on a second term in office at the appropriate time.

Oyegun and Buhari

Following the controversy over the Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Alhassan's decision to support Atiku Abubakar against President Muhammadu Buhari in any presidential duel, the APC chairman has reacted.

National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said at the appropriate time, President Buhari will disclose his intention towards a second term.

Chief Odigie-Oyegun, who spoke to newsmen, yesterday, in Benin City, said one of the greatest achievements of the Buhari-led administration was bringing Nigeria out of recession as recently declared by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, asserting that more progress would be made before the 2019 presidential election.

He said: “The decision, whether our President will run for a second term, is a decision only President Buhari can make, and he will make it at the proper time.

"For now, he still has nearly two years of painful, strenuous reconstruction of the Nigerian economy and all the other promises he made both in anti-corruption and on security is still serious work in progress.

“At the proper time, he will decide, and at the proper time, the APC will decide and the public will know.”

On the threat by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to reclaim power from the APC in 2019, Chief Oyegun asserted: “They are allowed to continue on their dreams, they are just coming out from intensive care unit. So they need a lot of nurturing, so this is good for their ego.”