Chief Rochas Okorocha, Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum,Thursday, said there will be no automatic ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of the All Progressives Congress(APC), if he decides to seek re-election.
Okorocha, who also double as governor of Imo State said every candidates on the party’s platform must emerge through transparent democratic process.
“If President Muhammadu Buhari decides to contest, he would have to go through the procedure provided by the Constitution to emerge the party’s candidate.
“We won’t allow imposition of candidates, it must be democratically done,” he told State House correspondents on Wednesday in Abuja shortly after meeting with the President.
“If President Buhari will lead the ship in 2019, it must be democratically done – and I say democratically, transparently.”
Okorocha stressed that the decision was to ensure Nigerians keep fate with the party and to prove to the international community that they would not allow any form of impunity with the APC.
Asked if the President would contest in 2019, he said the President Buhari is fit for the election.
“The gentleman is even looking much more handsome than even before he went to the hospital. He’s looking stronger and so, he has every right and qualification to continue his good job.
“There is nothing wrong at all, President Buhari qualifies constitutionally to run and the good thing is that he’s in good health, stronger than he has ever been. I think that the hospital he went was a mere exercise to strengthen his nerves and bones,” he added.
On what was discussed during the meeting, Okorocah said: “I’ve come to see Mr President and to discuss politics as it affects the South-East and APC, and the way forward and the politics of APC as it also concerns the governors and it was a very fruitful meeting.”
