27th February, 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
Federal Republic of Nigeria
State House
Abuja.
Your Excellency,
CONGRATULATION
It is on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the
United Progressive Party (UPP) that I most heartily congratulate you
on this auspicious and epoch-making event of your victory at the
February 23, 2019 Presidential Election.
We are indeed very proud to associate with you in a very robust and
pragmatic manner in the build-up and campaigns leading to your
ultimate victory. We recall with joy that it was on 17th August 2018,
that the National Executive Committee (NEC) of our great party met at
Abuja and resolved unanimously to adopt you as our Presidential
Candidate for the 2019 Presidential Election. To underscore our total
commitment to this resolution our party further resolved to suspend
our aspiration to file a presidential candidate on our platform until
the next general election in 2023.
We conveyed this resolution to all our State, Local Government and
Ward Chapters across the country. We further brought on board other
socio-political and cultural organizaions to add to the party’s
mobilization efforts. The Igboezue Cultural Advancement Initiative is
one of the outstanding socio-political and cultural organizations that
readily came on board.
On Friday, 16th November, 2018, I led a select delegation of our party
leadership and the leadership of Igboezue Cultural Advancement
Initiative to the Presidential Villa to convey to you our resolution
in your favour and our blueprint as well as our roadmap for the
execution of our campaign programme which we pursued with great
vigour, conviction and determination to the very end of the campaigns.
Mr President, we pledged to contribute our own quota to make your
ultimate victory assume the status of a national consensus. We are
proud that your victory has indeed attained that desired status. We
further predicted that your victory will be so resounding as to make
the contemplation of a petition against it to be seen by well-meaning
Nigerians as an unnecessary national distraction. We are glad that,
that prediction has also been realized.
Mr President, as we join the All Progressives Congress, APC, other
political parties and indeed, well-meaning Nigerians to congratulate
and rejoice with you, we enjoin you as the father of all, to always
remember your commitment to the formation of an inclusive government.
We most sincerely commit ourselves to a continuous constructive
engagement with your Administration as you pilot the ship of the
Nigerian State to the next level.
Finally, we beg of you to speedily take necessary steps to usher
Nigeria into a full-blown Electronic Voting System as quickly as
possible. This holds the panacea to the hiccups that confront the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and indeed the
Nigerian electorate at every general election. This will be a golden
and everlasting legacy for which you will be remembered by the present
and future generations during and after your second tenure as the
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
May the Almighty God guide and guard you and endow you with sound
health and wisdom to continue to serve as our beloved President and
Commander-in-Chief.
Yours sincerely,
Chief Dr. Chekwas Okorie
National Chairman, UPP
