…Says Adamu on his own
State governors on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday rejected the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan as the party’s 2023 consensus presidential candidate.
The governors, at a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, insisted that there must be a power shift, which they noted would be too risky for the APC if the rotation was disallowed.
The APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, had anointed Lawan as the consensus candidate, a development that is currently causing ripples among the State governors as well as other party stakeholders.
The announcement came a few hours before the National Convention, which is expected to produce the APC’s flag bearer within the next three days.
Earlier in the meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC, which was presided over by Senator Adamu, it was gathered that some members of the Committee vehemently opposed Senator Lawan as the consensus candidate.
Those who opposed Lawan argued that the party must respect zoning and allow the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu and others cleared by the Screening Committee, to contest, if the APC must retain power at the centre.
Earlier in his brief with the State House correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum and incumbent Governor of Plateau State, Barr. Simon Lalong, made their position known, saying it was in the interest of justice, equity and fair play.
Lalong said: “13 of us apologised to the President for receiving the information about our position after it was leaked”.
