The All Progressive Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Stanley Osifo, has revealed why he contested against President Bola Tinubu.
Osifo summoned the courage to contest against President Tinubu in the party’s presidential primary election held nationwide on Saturday.
Tinubu secured a landslide victory in the APC presidential primary election and, on Sunday, accepted his nomination as the APC presidential candidate for the 2027 elections.
Appearing on Arise News after his defeat to Tinubu was confirmed, Osifo said that in the APC, no one is a loser.
He insisted that he decided to run in the party’s primary to ensure that Nigeria gets better and that Nigerians enjoy the dividends of democracy.
In his words, “The election has come and gone, and we have a winner…we don’t have a loser in APC.”
Asked what was his motivation to run against the President, he said, “The motivating factor is to say that we do work hard at what we’re doing to ensure that Nigeria gets better, and that we continue to dispatch to Nigerians the dividends of democracy, and more importantly, also to deepen democracy within our party.”
Asked if he thought that he will ever defeat Tinubu, or he just wanted to be called a former presidential aspirant he added, “This is not my first time. I’ve done it before, and then this time around I came out for the same position.
“In everything the party is supreme, and then loyalty to the party is very, very important. So, whatever we have done so far is done within the party. It’s an internal process, not external process.
“I will just say that there were a lot of intrigues, though. But within the party, we looked at it and think we are good.”
Osifo scored just one vote in his own ward. Asked if this could mean that his own people do not like him, he said, “I wouldn’t say so. Think for every action there are reasons.”
