The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has told opposition party members to join the APC so that their sins could be forgiven.
Oshiomhole made the call at the APC rally in Benin, the Edo State capital, on Thursday while receiving some members of the Peoples Democratic Party into the APC.
He said, “We have some PDP defectors. They are, Henry Tenebe, Iluobe….Iluobe means I have done something wrong. Yes, once you join the APC, your sins are forgiven.”
Oshiomhole advised the people to vote for the President and all the APC candidates at the polls.
Earlier at a rally in Warri, Delta State, Oshiomhole, appealed to Buhari to probe the $16bn spent on the National Integrated Power Project by the PDP-led government of Olusegun Obasanjo.
He also told Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who is also the governorship candidate of the PDP, that his days were numbered as the APC candidate, Chief Great Ogboru, would defeat him.
“Mr President, in your second term, I urge you with respect sir; you must fulfil the question which we have asked. After $16bn, you will ask, where is the light? Mr President, you have a duty to man and to God, to ensure that that question must be answered. It must be answered judiciously. It must be answered in the court of law and what people are entitled to know.”
Speaking earlier at the party’s rally in Warri, Delta State, the Presidential candidate of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari, reiterated his administration’s resolve to continue the fight against corruption even as he promised the people of the Niger Delta that his administration, when re-elected, would give the region serious attention.
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“In the fight against corruption, I assure you that all those who have fraudulently enriched themselves when they were entrusted with public funds, we will eventually get them and deal with them. We are doing it, we will continue to do it and I assure you, we will not abuse your trust,” he stated.
However, the rally was not without drama as the President failed three times to correctly address the party’s governorship candidate in the State, Great Ogboru, by his designation.
When he was to hand over the party’s flag to the state governorship candidate of the party, he identified him as the presidential candidate of the APC.
He said, “I am handing over this flag of honour to our presidential candidate.”
He was corrected by a man on the podium to his left, saying “gubernatorial”, but the President said “to our senatorial candidate.”
When the man corrected him again, saying “gubernatorial” Buhari said “governortorial candidate.”
