Osita Okechukwu, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Sunday said that President Bola Tinubu’s overwhelming victory in the party’s presidential election shows that internal democracy is being practiced, unlike the African Democratic Congress, ADC, which is currently facing issues with zoning regarding its presidential candidate.
Okechukwu said this while commending Tinubu for his landslide victory in the APC presidential primary election.
In a statement he signed, the former Director General of the Voice of Nigeria praised the leadership of the APC for following the law by trying out direct primaries for the first time in Nigeria, across all 8,809 electoral wards nationwide.
Okechukwu also cautioned that President Tinubu’s overwhelming win brings significant challenges for the APC.
He said: “May I congratulate Mr President for his landslide victory and join him in positing that the victory poses enormous challenges to our great party, because to whom much is given, much is expected. In fact, I am in league with Mr President in his profound statement: ‘I’m just excited; they challenge me to do more.”
Okechukwu said that the polling results from various states were impressive and showed the trust that party members have in President Tinubu.
He mentioned numbers like Ogun State with 322,485 votes; Benue State with 374,787 votes; Rivers State with 280,082 votes; Delta State with 407,646 votes; Abia State with 161,005 votes; and Osun State with 100,880 votes.
Okechukwu pointed out that the significant results created major challenges for the President, along with the 31 governors from the APC and the APC lawmakers, aims to achieve a remarkable result in the 2027 presidential election.
“My worries about the high expectations he mentioned come from several reasons. These include the past of low voter turnout, hunger in the country, clear insecurity, high unemployment, unreliable electricity supply, and a bad debt-to-service-revenue ratio,” he said.