The Presidency has described as a major boost to President Muhammadu Buhari ’s success in the 2019 election, the outcome of the All Progressives Congress, APC, American-style direct presidential primaries on Friday.
The exercise was conducted across the states with President Muhammadu Buhari as the sole aspirant.
The Presidency, in a statement issued by the president’s media aide, Garba Shehu, said in a more direct way, the huge turnout of millions of registered party members at all voting centres proved that the President had an incomparable ability to reach out to people and mobilise votes.
It said it was significant that President Buhari had won a major victory, fair and square through direct nationwide primary, a system that sought to break the mould.
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It said the President had shown that “you don’t have to be a party owner or go through a difficult inner party consensus to emerge as candidate.”
“Beyond this being a victory for the party and the President, it is a message to everyone that development and good governance are more important to our people than divide and rule politics.
“The message in the air from this unique achievement by the APC is that all true democratic parties in the country need to start raising their act by copying the leadership of the President,” it said.