2019: How APC will use OBJ to defeat Atiku – Oshiomhole reveals

– Comrade Adams Oshiomhole says the APC will use former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s allegations to defeat the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in 2019

– He expressed confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari will return because he has a quality which none of the other presidential candidates can boast of, which is integrity

– Oshiomhole further assured Nigerians that the ruling party is at peace with itself

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the ruling party will use the allegations made against the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, by his former boss, former president Olusegun Obasanjo, to defeat the opposition party in 2019.

Oshiomole made the comment in Abuja, the nation’s capital, The Nation reports.

TRACK NEWS gathers that he said: “Now that we know that our main opponent is Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, we will defeat him again the way we have defeated him before; and I am confident that President Muhammadu Buhari will return because he has a quality which none of them can boast of, which is integrity, integrity, integrity.

“To make statement about the others, we will just generate what former president Obasanjo has to say about Atiku and what Atiku has to say about Obasanjo.

“By the time you read it, you make up your mind if Nigeria is looking for a leader who they can trust; whether it is one with unquestionable integrity, or is the one that there are debates as to whether or not how much we can trust. I am confident that God will give us victory at the end of the day.”

He further assured Nigerians that the ruling party is at peace with itself; stating: “Peace does not mean absence of some murmuring or grumbling. We are not looking for graveyard peace, we want functioning peace. People can have some arguments, some reservations but with time, it will heal.

“So, I want to assure all those who are genuinely aggrieved, I have a duty, along with my colleagues in the NWC, to work to heal wounds, for reconciliations.

“So, we are setting up various panels, groups of eminent leaders drawn from APC, statesmen and women within our party who we believe can help us to talk to all those who are aggrieved, so that we sort out all the grievances and approach the next coming election as a functioning party and by the special grace of God, we will win.”

In a related development, TRACK NEWS previously reported that the United Kingdom chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has made the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari easier.

Ade Omole, leader of APC UK, stated that President Buhari remains the best candidate for the 2019 presidential election, among the array of presidential candidates being paraded by other political parties.

He also maintained that Atiku’s candidature would not stop the victory of the APC.