Kachikwu, Oshiomhole reportedly meet behind closed door over Buhari’s re-election bid

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- The meeting between Emmanuel Kachikwu and Oshiomhole held behind closed door

- Kachikwu confirmed the meeting was because of the political future of President Buhari

- The minister also denied running for the governorship seat of Delta state

Emmanuel Kachikwu, the petroleum minister, reportedly met with the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday, July 9, over the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The meeting held behind closed door in Abuja, with Kachikwu speaking with journalists later after the meeting.

New Telegraph reports that the minister said the meeting was not for his own political ambition but the re-election of President Buhari as well as an APC governor in Delta state.

“Actually, I didn’t come to take over any structure. The reality is the politics of structure is passed.

“APC has a different approach to this thing. It doesn’t matter who has the structure; it doesn’t matter what the structure is. Things are going to be done right; things are going to be done collectively and in unified manner, so that everybody can work together.

“If you take the structure, people do not support you, then you are going to lose. My business is to deliver the President and deliver the APC governor. We are going to do it in a way that it will not be contentious and all in clusive.

“We have come to discuss with comrade, we want to congratulate him formally again. And for us to make him understand that we have some works to do collectively in Delta and we are putting heads together.

“We have been working collectively so far just to find a common solution,” he said.

Concerning his governorship aspiration, Kachikwu said: “Not at all. I have said that many times.

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“I don’t know why people think I am going to talk about this thing. I don’t want to be governor. I am not running for governorship. I want to make sure the party unifies and selects a candidate we can work with. That’s my position on that.”

NAIJ.com earlier reported that a member of Federal House of Representatives, Honourable Danlami Mohammed Kurfi, predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari will win the 2019 presidential election, should his party All Progressives Congress (APC), fields him during the election.

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