The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC ) Governors' Forum, Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo, says President Muhammadu Buhari would soon address the nation on whether he will seek re-election in 2019.
Okorocha and Buhari
While speaking in a brief chart with reporters on Thursday shortly after he led other APC governors to meet with the president, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, said that President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation soon on whether he will seek re-election in 2019.
The chairman of the APC governors forum, who spoke after the closed-door meeting between the President and the APC governors held on Thursday night at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said they were in the Villa to ask President Buhari to seek a second term in office.
Okorocha who disclosed that the president would also address the caucus of the APC on the matter, said: “We discussed so many issues that affects the nations, our party and Mr. President’s ambition to run for 2019 elections.
“It is the desire of the governors that Mr. President should run for this exalted office given his performance in the last two years. We believe that if he continues Nigeria will be better for it.”
The Imo governor said further that President Buhari “in his usual manner”, has requested that the governors “give him time and that he will address the nation and the caucus of the party very soon”
“So we should be full of expectations that Mr. President will make officially known to Nigerians his intentions but we hope that his response will be in line with what the governors are thinking,” he said.