2023: APC remains the best to win presidency - Buhari's minister declares

Minister of state for petroleum resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) remains the best bet to win the presidency in the 2023 general elections.

The former Bayelsa state governor made the disclosure during an interview on Channels Television’s Newsnight which aired on Monday.

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva is confident that, despite challenges being experienced by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the party remains the best bet to win the presidency in the next general elections.

“I don’t see any party in Nigeria today that is stronger than APC,” the Minister said during an interview on Channels Television’s Newsnight which aired on Monday.

“Of course, we have our internal problems like every other party. We are still, I believe, the party to beat and I believe in 2023, we will still have the presidency.”

The former Bayelsa State governor described President Muhammadu Buhari as a rallying point in the party and the country at large and believes the Nigerian leader makes the APC different from other parties in Africa’s most populous nation.

“The role of President Buhari in the APC is that he is a rallying point. And when you have a rallying figure, you have a way of getting everybody come together at critical times,” the 56-year-old, who on January 31st revalidated his membership of the party, explained.

“So, I believe that he would continue to play that role of a rallying figure. Even outside government in APC, he continues to be a rallying figure. That is one major advantage that we have that will give us the presidency in 2023.”

This development is coming more than a week after the minister of state for petroleum resources, revalidated his membership of the ruling APC in the ongoing nationwide fresh registration/revalidation exercise.

The former governor of Bayelsa state also urged all APC members and those that are yet to join the party to take advantage of the ongoing exercise.

The Bayelsa-born politician revalidated his membership of APC at ward 4 (Agadama), Brass local government area of Bayelsa state on Sunday, January 31.