In honor of Eid-el-Fitr, President Bola Tinubu received a visit from former Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole at his Lagos home.
After meeting with the President on Thursday, Oshiomhole told reporters that the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) is cohesive and prepared for the next state gubernatorial election.
The senator from Edo North added that the APC has already formed a Campaign Council to oversee the campaigns and expressed confidence in the party’s ability to win the next Edo State governorship election.
Even while Oshiomhole was optimistic about the APC’s prospects, he also pointed out that the Labour Party and other party rivals are also dealing with internal issues.
“Elections are due,” he declared. We are content and working to finalize all the plans so that, thanks to the unity of our home, we can prevail in the upcoming election. We resolved 100% of the issues that arose during the primaries.
“At least the APC is not in any kind of crisis; our opponents are; even the Labour Party is experiencing some sort of crisis.”
Oshiomhole claimed to have updated Tinubu on the state’s developments and to have told him of the president’s support for the APC’s initiatives.
“We are all waiting for INEC to get started on April 24,” he said. I gave him a briefing on all of that. We are content and feel that our father is looking out for us, but we won’t go to sleep thinking that he would travel to Edo to cast our ballots.
In addition, Oshiomhole stated that he was there to “appreciate some of the positive developments we have begun to see” and to pay the president his respects in Sallah.
He emphasized how the Naira has strengthened, rising from a low of 2,000 to the dollar to its present value of about 1,100.
Oshiomhole stated, “I read this morning in a foreign media story that the Naira is probably the best currency in 2024, given the fact that in Nigeria’s history, the Naira never bounces back once it goes down.”
When the Naira approached 2,000, he said, many Nigerians turned to dollar speculation out of worry that it would continue its downward trend. However, as the currency recovered, they suffered “huge losses.”
The former labor leader attributed the naira’s recovery to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s efficient administration of the foreign exchange system.
“The central bank is starting to show itself, and it has developed very useful tools to quietly manage the system in a way that the naira is beginning to appreciate and find its level in,” he said.