National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said that his party is confident of winning the 2019 election because Nigerians are not ready to give the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a second chance.
The APC chairman stated this on Thursday in an interview with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa Abuja after he met with President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Oshiomhole said although the PDP had said they will be in power for 60 years and that if Nigerians rejected them after just 16 years, it is a sign that the citizens are fed up with the party.
“They wanted to do 60 years, but they were terminated, no employer will recall an employee dismissed due to gross misconduct and abuse of finances you don’t recall the employee back,” he said.
The APC chairman said even after their failure, “all that the PDP could do was to apologise through its National Chairman, Uche Secondus”.
“I remember that the best Secondus had to say was that he was apologising to Nigerian people and I have not heard anybody say they have accepted the apology. People who have robbed you, they don’t apologise and say allow me back into your store room, you don’t do that,” he said.
Oshiomhole said even though the APC is not perfect, nothing can make Nigerians get so confused “as to think that yesterday there was mismanagement and those who were at the heart of that mismanagement can be entrusted with providing leadership for tomorrow”.
“I don’t think that is the question at all. PDP is out of this calculation as far as I am concerned. PDP is just not an option particularly when their candidate is not a new face.”