2019: PDP governors have endorsed Buhari

2019: PDP governors have endorsed Buhari - Governor Lalong claims

- Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state has said that PDP governors have endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of 2019 general elections

- He said that the governors from the opposition parties are working for Buhari's re-election bid

- Lalong also noted that the governors confirmed that the president has rescued Nigeria from crisis and poverty

Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau state has disclosed that even the governors serving on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have joined their All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts to declare support for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election,

This Day reports that Lalong spoke on Friday, December 14, in Jos after returning from a meeting with the president in Abuja, which according to him was attended by other governors across all political parties including the PDP.

Legit.ng gathered that the governor said that he and other governors of PDP were just waiting to swear-in President Buhari in 2019 from what he saw during the meeting.

He 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, the state APC chairman, Latep Dabang 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.

Also speaking, Pam Dung Gyang, the Governors campaign organisation Director General said, “I see the event as the opening of new era in Plateau.

“Your leadership style and track record show that you have the capacity to take Plateau to the next level. We are assuring you that we are working hard and doing our best to ensure that there is no vacancy in Government House come 2019.

We now have peace in Plateau, barracks have been established, and schools have been established among many other achievements. We shall launch our campaign and all other parties shall go into hiding."

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that a civil society organistion, the Patriotic Conscience for New Nigeria, stated that the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket remains the best option for Nigeria given the myriads of achievements the present administration has recorded in the past three years.

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