A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Ejike Njeze, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari had been vindicated by the outcome of the November 18 governorship election in Anambra state which was won by the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) incumbent governor, Willie Obiano.
Njeze, who was a member of Buhari’s delegation when he visited the South East recently, said the fact that Obiano won with a landslide showed that the President’s promise and commitment to free and fair elections across the country were in good faith.
The APC chieftain spoke, Monday, in Abuja while reacting to the outcome of the Saturday gubernatorial polls in Anambra.
Recall that prior to the election, some persons had accused the APC of trying to rig the election with the use of the military.
He said: “The outcome of the Anambra election shows that President Buhari is committed to the statement he made during his inauguration in 2015 in which he told Nigerians he ‘belongs to everybody and belongs nobody.’
“Obiano’s landslide victory clearly shows that the President has been vindicated. He is not a partial, parochial, and unfair leader as insinuated in some quarters.
“From the results of the election, it can be seen that if President Buhari wanted to interfere in the outcome of the election, all it would have taken was for him, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Head of State, to issue instructions to certain individuals and the APC candidate, Tony Nwoye, would have been returned winner and governor-elect as was the norm in previous administrations.
“But, the President provided a level playing ground for all the candidates and political parties and also charged INEC and the security agencies to be as neutral as possible in the conduct of the election. That< I think he deserves kudos for.”
