Frontline Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Alliance for New Nigeria, ANN, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has described his bid for the 2019 presidential election as unstoppable despite the alleged antics of anti-progressive forces.
The Campaign Organisation of the aspirant said in a statement issued in Abuja that Olawepo-Hashim’s aspiration was a manifestation of obedience to God’s instruction that he should throw his hat in the ring for the nation’s plum job.
The statement, signed by the Director General of the Campaign Organisation and former Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Right Honourable Terseer Tsumba, said the intention of the anti-progressive forces was to destabilse the ANN platform and use it to further the interest of the failed ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.
According to the statement, “The said unscrupulous element, acting in alliance with a certain presidential aspirant who has been pretending to be campaigning for the office of president on the platform of the ANN, first launched a series of attack on the party in the build up to her congresses and national convention, which held in August 2018.
“With his fellow travelers, this so-called presidential aspirant also circulated disparaging remarks aimed at impugning the credibility of our principal in the social media, where he sustained a vicious campaign along with his hirelings.
“Having failed woefully in August to halt the march of the ANN to become the fastest growing political party, these unscrupulous elements in cahoots with their paymasters in the APC injected a lot of dirty money with the intent of compromising certain functionaries of the ANN.
“This is in order to foist a prematurely-organised presidential primary election on the party with the intent of producing a desired outcome by the ruling APC. We are confident that this latest attempt by these anti-progressive forces will fail just as their attack against the ANN failed in August 2018.”
The Campaign Organisation stated that it was aware of a series of other plots to recruit disgruntled elements with diverted government resources to undermine the hard-won integrity of Olawepo-Hashim by “these forces running errands for powerful elements in the ruling party,” stressing that the plot would fail.
“Our principal is well assured of the grace of God on this mission and for this reason he is unstoppable,” the organisation further stated and dismissed the anti-progressive forces as “exogenous APC forces” who would not be allowed to succeed in their enterprise.
According to the organisation, “The APC is an army of occupation cordinated by the relics of the Abacha dictatorship. They and their agents in the ANN will be defeated. Our resolve is strong and we are unstoppable.”
The statement continued: “Let it be clear that the Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim (GOH) 2019 Campaign Organisation is not perturbed or discouraged. The presidential aspirant we are presenting to the Nigerian electorate is a veteran of many struggles, right from his youth as a student union activist in the 1980’s, and was a pro-democracy activist in the early 90’s, aside being a businessman politician for almost two and a half decades.
“As a political “general”, he cannot be discouraged or distracted by the shenanigans of political boy scouts and apprentice politicians. The mission for him remains Nigeria, the transformation of Nigeria’s economy from a poor 510 billion dollar economy to a 4 trillion dollar economy within 10 years, the reduction in poverty and the restoration of peace, unity and stability in Nigeria, a country that the ruling party has badly mismanaged”
