President Buhari And State Governors Insist On Consensus Candidates

President Muhammadu Buhari and governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have resolved to work towards the emergence of consensus candidates at Saturday’s national convention.

Aspirants who reject the consensus module would be given the chance  to test their popularity at the convention ground.

These were part of the issues discussed at the meeting of President Buhari with APC governors, yesterday. This came amid indications that the governors may have traded off the national chairmanship of the party for the presidency.

Briefing State House correspondents after the meeting with President Buhari, chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum, PGF, and Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu, said they will support any process that would lead to a consensus.

“We all restated our commitment to working together to ensure that the convention takes place on March 26, 2022, and then we agreed to support all decisions taken by the Caretaker Committee, both acting as a working committee and acting with the donated powers given to it by the National Executive Committee,” he said.

“Our party is a democratic party, we will always urge consensus, we will urge respect for the decisions of the party because the distribution of political party offices here has been approved by the highest organ of the party, which is the National Caretaker Committee because they were acting in their capacity as the National Executive Committee of the party.

“But where people still choose to go against the grain, whatever the party constitution allows them, will be done because we wouldn’t do anything undemocratic.”