UPP Adopts Buhari For 2019 Polls

President Muhammadu Buhari with (R-L) Dr Stanley Uzochukwu; APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, Mr Emeka Okwuosa, and Mr Chekwas Okorie, at the State House in Abuja on November 16, 2018.

The United Progressives Party (UPP) has adopted President Muhammadu Buhari as its candidate for the general elections in 2019.

UPP National Chairman, Chekwas Okorie, disclosed this to State House correspondents after meeting with the President on Friday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Mr Okorie said the adoption of President Buhari would be further confirmed when the UPP leaders meet on Tuesday next week.

He also denied reports that the people of the South East region have thrown their weight behind the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole, was also present at the meeting between the President and the UPP delegation

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