By David Lawani
The Majority leader of the house of Representatives, Hon. Ado Doguwa has disclosed that the All Progressives Congress, APC has said come out unscathed from many basic problems it was facing before noting that the party remains the people’s choice for the next election as it will produce the president.
Doguwa made this known in an interview with journalists in Abuja, stating that the new leadership of the ruling party, the APC is back on track.
He said, “I want to believe the National working committee has now been given the power, the necessary parameters for them to go into actions and work for the success of the party”.
Doguwa assured the NWC of his support for the success of the new leadership.
“Some of the challenges we are facing which are very much endemic not only endemic they are globally inclined and Mr president will do the best he could with the support of the parliament to be able to have a safe and a united Nigeria.
The lawmaker was reacting to the insinuations from the opposition quarters that the 2023 general elections Should be suspended due to the insecurity in the country, which he said are baseless.
“Baseless because they don’t even have the number, baseless because some of the problems are not on the ground, they are not pragmatic.
“These are artificial problems they are raising for the system. For instance, when someone said suspend general elections until we have security, we have enough and significant security.
” There is nothing that will stop the general election come 2023. The INEC is set, and the security agencies are also set. We believe they can afford the minimum level of security to go for elections.
“No one should insinuate suspending elections because this is a democracy, we have rules of the game and the rules of the game have also set aside how to go about it in terms of timeline and timeframe.
“So this government cannot afford to make this mistake and we will not make it, we will have our general elections conducted because all other institutions that are involved in the election procedures; nobody has raised alarms; Nigerians are set, the time has come and we will go ahead doing the best we can and by 2023 I want to beat my chest to tell you that the APC remains the party to beat and we will produce the next president to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking on his alleged governorship ambition, he said “these are just reports. When times go on and continue, these reports will be very fine but for now, I cannot comment on this question
“I believe everyone will want to progress but as far as I’m concerned, I want to tell you for the record that as of today, I have no intention whatsoever to run for the governorship of my state but if God in his infinite mercy allows me and gives me the chance, I will ask you to clap for me and give me the chance”.
