Ex-governor Yuguda agrees to serve as local government chairman
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- Former Governor Isa Yuguda says he is ready to serve as a chairman of a local government if his people wanted such
- Yuguda reportedly says this to emphasise his readiness to work for the success of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019
- Senator Godswill Akpabio says the youth and women remain important to the victory of the APC
A former governor of Bauchi state, Isa Yuguda, hosted the Central Working Committee (CWC) of the presidential support committee saying that he is ready to work as chairman of a local government if his people want him to do so.
The central working committee is a platform coordinating over 4,000 APC support groups for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, which is led by its national coordinator, Senator Godswill Akpabio.
Daily Trust reports that Yuguda said this to show he is prepared to take any role in the bid to ensure the victory of President Buhari on February 16, 2019.
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“I have to thank Almighty God for us to be able to assemble and interact with one another. I listen to the national coordinator as they kick-start activities in earnest in order to ensure that we achieve the objective of successfully bringing back Mr President to his seat come February 2019.
“Mr national coordinator, I recently joined. Since I joined, I have become a very active member. We have only few weeks to the presidential election. We are supposed to be working 24 hours.
“We are very confident that you have what you need to succeed. As you did say, it’s not about positions you held, it’s about how effective you will be.
“Whatever position you are holding, I’m prepared to work as a local government chairman now, having been a two-time minister, two-time governor and a managing director of two banks.
“So, if I’m given a job of chairman of a local government today, and my people want me to serve them, I will do that.
“We should humble ourselves. It’s not about position, no, we don’t have time. Let’s just work together as a family, let’s deliver,” he said.
In his speech, Akpabio, who was governor of Akwa Ibom, said women and youth remain important to the victory of President Buhari.
“We must ensure that from Abuja, we move right down to where elections are held. We must go back to the units. We must have unit collators, monitors, observers, and watchers.
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“We must have those who will follow the results from the unit to the ward level, from the ward level to the local government level, and from local government level to the state level, and from the state level to the central collation point.
“This is the reason why I believe strongly that we, PSC, have the capacity and spread. Let me say that we must bond together as a family. The only appointment I want you to have in mind is to be a coordinator for President Buhari in 2019 election,” he said.
Legit.ng earlier reported that the governor of Oyo state, Abiola Ajimobi, declared that President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are sure of massive votes from the south western region of Nigeria during the February 16, election.
However, Atiku Abubakar recently reacted to the news that Ghana had overtaken Nigeria as West Africa’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment saying
he would reverse the trend if elected .
It was gathered that Atiku described the development as disappointing, pledging to make Nigeria regain its status as Africa’s top recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) once he becomes the president during the 2019 presidential election.