[Skunkworks] Is port 8080 more secure than 80?

I am locked in a sort of argument with another techie... Said techie says that, for an internet facing web server, using a non-standard port, e.g. 8080 is safer than using port 80. But I just don't get it. So, specifically for Apache running on RHEL, how safer is a non standard port compared to the default port?