Nothing Can Stop APC From Retaining Power In 2023 – Uzodinma

By Gideon Njoku

For Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, victory  for his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the centre,  is a foregone conclusion. It is as clear as night and day. Nothing, he said, is capable of stopping the APC from retaining the Presidential seat.

The Governor who spoke to State House Correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday, said that all the indices point to an APC victory in the upcoming 2023 polls, refusing to agree there are circumstances that can deter the party from retaining power, especially  as contrary to what not a few people say and think, the Buhari Government has done remarkably well.

Here are, in his words, why Governor thinks it is not possible to beat APC in 2023.

His words: “What is the prevailing factor that will make APC not to win? Is it that you are not aware that the President is of the APC extraction? Is it that you don’t know that 22 states in the country belong to APC? Is it that you don’t know that APC has the majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives? Is it that you don’t know that out of the 774 local Government Councils in the country that the APC is controlling the majority? Have you not seen the number of people decamping into the APC?

On the President’s performance which not a few people rate as poor, Uzodinma disagreed, and reeled out the positive achievements of the President.

His words: “The mood of the country is that the President is doing very well and the mood of the country is that APC, given the peculiarity of this time, where insecurity has taken over the globe, where COVID-19 has ravaged every place in the world, from one variant to another variant, yet we are able to come out from recession.

“The way the Central Bank has managed to see that we are still afloat, the way all the intervention policies of the government, including the stimulus package rolled out by this government, to ensure that the negative impacts of COVID-19 is not grievous on our people. So I’m very confident, I’m a proud member of the APC and I think we’ll do our best to ensure that the confidence reposed in the party by Nigerians is not betrayed.”

President Muhammadu Buhari will leave office on May 29, 2023, after the  General Elections which is expected to be very competitive between his Party, the APC and the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, the PDP.