{"id":4322,"date":"2019-02-11T16:09:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2019-02-11T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:09:44","slug":"2019-election-what-buhari-said-about-apc-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/2019-election-what-buhari-said-about-apc-crisis","title":{"rendered":"2019 election: What Buhari said about APC crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed hope that the crisis threatening the inclusion of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in Zamfara in the coming general elections will soon be over.<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that the President said this in Gusau during his campaign rally in the state on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took an oath as the president of this country to preserve and respect the sanctity of the judiciary and I will maintain this so that the right thing can be done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur party decided to go for either direct primaries, indirect primaries or consensus during the last party primaries ahead of the up coming general elections but we experienced challenges in eight states including Zamfara.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, since the matter is in the court now, l hope and pray that before next Saturday, the court will resolve the issue so that candidates from our party can participate in all the elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The president maintained that he could not hand out the party\u2019s flag to the candidates in the state during his campaign rally as a sign of respect to the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that he had kept his 2015 campaign promises to Nigerians all the three areas of provision of security, improvement of economy and fight against corruption, noting that all recovered stolen money would be used for infrastructure development.<\/p>\n<p>While calling on the people to come out en-mass and vote for all the party\u2019s candidates in the coming elections, the president urged them to be law abiding throughout the exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed hope that the crisis threatening the inclusion of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in Zamfara in the coming general elections will soon be over. NAN reports that the President said this in Gusau during his campaign rally in the state on Sunday. \u201cI took an oath as the president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,16],"tags":[34,97,38],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-buhari","tag-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2019 election: What Buhari said about APC crisis - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/2019-election-what-buhari-said-about-apc-crisis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2019 election: What Buhari said about APC crisis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed hope that the crisis threatening the inclusion of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in Zamfara in the coming general elections will soon be over. 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