The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has announced Senate president Ahmad Lawan as APC consensus presidential candidate.
This is contrary to the position of most Northern Governors on power shift to the South.
Adamu announced this at the meeting of the National Working Committee, NWC, on Monday, in Abuja.
However, some members of the NWC kicked against the move and insisted that other Presidential aspirants must be allowed to contest the primary election at tomorrow’s convention scheduled at the Eagle Square, Abuja.
Some presidential aspirants including Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi state and aggrieved NWC members staged a walk out to protest the announcement of Lawan as consensus candidate.
Adamu’s adoption of Lawan as consensus candidate is against the position of 11 APC nothern governors who endorsed that power must shift to the South after President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure.
Adamu told the NWC that he arrived at the choice of Lawan after consultation with President Buhari.
Reacting to the move, some APC northern governors raced to Aso Villa and currently meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
Although President Buhari has maintained his position on the consensus arrangement, there has not been any agreement among the 23 presidential aspirants.
