Some chieftains of the All Progressive Congress, APC in Imo State have said President Muhammadu’s Buhari’s statement where he called on voters in the State to vote for candidates of their choice across party lines was misinterpreted.
Martin Agbaso, a decampee from the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA to the All Progressive Congress, APC stated this at the APC party office in Owerri.
Agbaso was a former National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA. He had decamped to the APC on the day the President and APC held its rally in Owerri last week.
“The President said across party lines, which means down the line of APC for APC candidate. After the President spoke, he presented Uzodimma to Imo people and asked them to vote for him
“How can anybody interpret this action to mean that the President said that Imo people can vote for any other candidate outside APC? What more did anybody expect from Mr. President?”
Mr Fabian Ihekweme, another party leader said: “The call by Buhari was actually for those who are not of APC to vote across party lines, especially for Senator Uzodinma whom he raised his hand.
“For us in PDP and other parties that collapsed for Senator Uzodinma, we saw the President’s harmless statement as a clarion call to vote the APC candidate as that choice has been made clear to us even by the national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.”
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