The National Organizing Secretary of the All Progressive Congress Sulieman Argungun has said that they are yet to accept the senate president Ahmad Lawan as a consensus candidate for the presidential race.
He made the disclosure at the party’s national secretariat Monday 6th June 2022 in Abuja.
Suleiman said they were only briefed by the national chairman of the party senator Abdullahi Adamu about the consensus candidate, hence it is yet to be deliberated on the floor of the NWC.
Suleiman noted that as a democrat everyone is entitled to his or her opinion stressing that the national chairman of the party is only expressing his opinion according to him, zoning the presidency to the north is not the NWC decision.
“But’s not an issue that has been discussed on the floor of the NWC and we have just, recently about two days ago, the northern Governors had a meeting that the leadership of this country, under the leadership under the All Progressive Congress should go to the north.
And equally, the Southern governors also affirmed that.
So we as members of the NWC are also with the governors on what they have said and some minutes ago the governors on the North have gone to the presidency and have just briefed the president that they are still on what they said with regards to the powers to the south.
You see it’s just information he gave us, and it’s not an issue that has to be deliberated on the floor and all of us are entitled to our opinion, we are all democrats and we can exercise whatever.
This decision was never taken by the NWC, but the information was given to the NWC.
It has never been deliberated.”
There has been tension in the APC national secretariat over speculation that the senate president Ahmad Lawan has been chosen as the party’s consensus candidate for the 2023 general election.
