Akinlade: Buhari welcomes endorsement

President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the leader of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate in the forthcoming
general elections, will campaign for the party and all its candidates.

Buhari meets Akinlade of APM, along with Gov. Amosun of APC

A presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, made this known in a
statement while reacting to media enquiries over the hosting of Gov.
Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun by President Buhari at the Presidential Villa,
Abuja, on Sunday.

Amosun was accompanied by the Ogun state governorship candidate of
the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Abdulkadir Adekunle Akinlade, during
the visit.

The statement read: “Following repeated media enquiries on the
matter, the Presidency wishes to state in clear and unmistakable terms
that as a party leader and a candidate on the platform of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming elections, President Muhammadu
Buhari will campaign for the party and all its candidates.

“This, however, does not mean that he, as the nation’s leader, will
decline courtesy calls or offers of support from citizens including
candidates flying the flags of other parties.

“There is no doubt that the President has no competition here in
terms of popularity in the coming elections. But the more support he
gets, the wider the margin of victory there will be.

“So please let there be no confusion about this. President Buhari is
APC. He will campaign for all APC candidates, but he welcomes support
and endorsements.’’

NAN reports that prior to Sunday’s meeting with the president,
Amosun, accompanied by the APM National Chairman, Alhaji Yusuf Dantalle,
had in Dec. 2018, met with the president at the Presidential Villa,
Abuja.

Amosun, at the meeting, presented a letter of adoption of the
President by APM as the party’s presidential candidate in Feb. 16
general elections.

The governor said the endorsement letter was given to him by the
party for onward presentation to the president, adding that with the
endorsement, Buhari, whom he described as a man with good heart, would
garner massive votes in the 2019 presidential elections.

NAN reports that the President and his visitors, at the end of
today’s visit, had group photograph where they all demonstrated the “4 +
4’’ symbol with their fingers, meaning another four years for governing
APC in Presidential Villa.

Amosun’s ‘consensus’ candidates for the governorship election
(Akinlade) and state assembly elections are contesting under the banner
of APM.

But, the governor is contesting for the Ogun central senatorial seat as a candidate of the All Progressives Congress.