APC will capture S’East, S’South in 2019 - Oyegun

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has voiced the willingness of the party to take over the control of power in the south-east and south-south geo-political zones in 2019. Chief Odigie-Oyegun spoke yesterday at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja while inaugurating a four-member strategic committee led by Otunba Niyi Adebayo to do a forensic analysis of the reasons why the APC lost the just concluded Anambra State governorship election. “It is critical that the south-east and south-south – the geographical zones that have contributed immensely to the survival of this nation - must fully be represented in what is going on to be a truly national government of the APC in 2019,” the APC national chairman also said. He said the south-east and the south-south would be crucial and critical for the APC victory in 2019 despite its firm confidence that the party would achieve success again during the next general elections. On the reasons for the constitution of the strategic committee, Chief Odigie-Oyegun said the party felt disappointed by the outcome of the governorship poll in Anambra and needed to find out what contributed to the low number of votes against expectations.    He said, “I want to be partisan here, we want a situation where we will win handsomely in the south east. I mentioned the south-south when I started. The circumstances are slightly different. But we are going to have the same type of strategic team for the south south. The issues are different. The environment is different. But it is necessary also that we bring the south-south into the national power framework that we expect to emerge in 2019.”