Obiageli Ezekwesili popularly known as Oby Ezekwesili has finally officially declared intention to contest post of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the 2019 general election under the Allied Congress Progressives Party (ACPN).
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Oby made her intention known on Sunday stressing that her decision is based on self-conviction, and that there already “a multi-million-person national grassroots organisation across the 36 states of Nigeria”.
“I am announcing not as an aspirant, but as a candidate running under the flag of the ACPN. Our party primaries held today, and I have humbly accepted the nomination.
“To show that we mean business, especially as we have already started building a multi-million-person national grassroots organisation across the 36 states of Nigeria.
“I have spent the past few weeks engaged across the country and internationally and I have fully persuaded myself, by myself, that the one thing I hate more than politics is politicians who believe they are untouchable by citizens because of power and money.
“My friends who have fully assumed their role as #OfficeOfTheCitizen, what started as my being aggrieved with the despair and despondency across the country, and the failure of governance by the #APCPDP has now become an urgent national movement.
“This is why, today, in response to the candidates of the #ACPPDP, I have officially declared my candidacy to run as a citizen, alongside you and other citizens, for President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2019.
“Our message is HOPE. Our hashtag is #Hope2019. Let the old order politicians of the #APCPDP be thereby put on notice that us citizens did not come here to play. We are in it to win it, for 2019.,” she stated.
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