Moshood Salvador, the head of Buhari/Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Support Group (Lagos Southwest), has said President Muhammadu Buhari will win next month’s election with a landslide.
Salvador who spoke Saturday at the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Maryland, Lagos, noted that the votes from the Northwest and Southwest were fully guaranteed to the President.
He added that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar campaign to restructure the country was not genuine. The party lacked the capacity to implement such a programme, he said.
Salvador, a former PDP chairman in Lagos State, explained that the country’s political configuration made Atiku’s proposal impossible to implement, stressing that all sections must be involved to restructure the country.
He advised those playing the restructuring card ahead of the election to stop being mischievous.
“The PDP knows that restructuring of the country is the agenda of Southern Nigeria. The party knows that the only way restructuring can gain dominance is to ask the old men in the south to talk about it.
Salvador said the alternative was for states to come together for economic gains, where they can channel their resources and make direct economic investment instead of looking up to federal hand-outs.
According to him, since restructuring was not a northern agenda, the issue would always be defeated through popular votes.
He noted that the PDP’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, would later come up with excuses why he could not restructure because of the inherent challenges.
The APC chieftain promised to completely defeat the PDP in Lagos, stressing the party was no longer in existence in the state.
“To prove to the PDP that I have the grassroots power, the political power in Lagos, this time APC will poll more than one million votes while the PDP will score less than six hundred thousand votes,” Salvador added.
Also speaking at the event, former Senator Anthony Adefuye, charged party members to move from house to house to canvass for votes, adding that victory for President Muhammadu Buhari would provide opportunity for the Southwest to reassert itself for future elections.
He advised party members to forget whatever acrimony that came up in the selection of candidates being presented for the elections.
“Some people may have been offended during the primary. That is not enough to revolt against APC’s candidates. Let’s vote them first,” he advised party members.
Iniobong Iwok
