2019 presidency: OBJ, Danjuma, IBB won’t decide Buhari’s fate – Keyamo

The campaign organisation of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, has declared that it was not bothered by the gang-up by certain retired Generals, against a fresh mandate for the president.

In an interview with Sunday Tribune, spokesperson of the President Buhari Campaign Organisation, Festus Keyamo (SAN), said the achievements of the APC presidential candidate in office, not the endorsement of retired Generals, remained his selling point.

He further noted that the defection of certain chieftains of the erstwhile ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the APC would boost the chances of President Buhari.

He said: “The influential forces that are also not with him then have also come to be with him. It is a balance of terror and force. Big names like Godswill Akpabio, Emmanuel Uduaghan in the south-south; big names like Senator Ken Nnamani and Senator Hope Uzodinmma in the southeast; former governors and senators who weren’t with him in 2015 have now joined the APC.

Asked on whether the like of Senators Akpabio and Uzodinmma wielded same political influence as Generals Obasanjo, Babangida and former minister of defence, Theophilus Danjuma, in the polity, Keyamo responded: “Look, I am averting my minds to human beings like you. You are calling human beings, I am calling human beings.

“The people I have mentioned, are they not human beings? Look, the people I have mentioned, are they goats?”