APC ticket: Buhari to meet Tinubu, Osinbajo, Amaechi, other aspirants, reveal preferred candidate Sunday

President Muhammadu Buhari has convened a meeting with the presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress latest Sunday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Newsflash Nigeria understands that the president meeting with the Presidential aspirants on Sunday to decide on the way forward and the possibility to reveal his preferred candidate among them.

Recalls that about 23 aspirants were listed to be screened by APC but the presidential Screening Committee led by Chief John Oyegun revealed on Friday that 13 of them have been cleared.

Though the 13 aspirants that were qualified to participate in the Monday convention are yet made public at the time of filing this report.

The APC’s 23 aspirants include the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Other aspirants are the Senate President Ahmad Lawan and former ministers Rotimi Amaechi, Ogbonnaya Onu, Godswill Akpabio, and Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba.

Serving governors who are also aspiring to be president are Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), Ben Ayade (Cross River) and Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa).

Others are former Senate President Ken Nnamani, former House of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, and serving senators Ibikunle Amosun, Ajayi Boroffice, and Rochas Okorocha.

President Buhari’s running mate in 2011, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Uju Ken-Ohanenye, Nicholas Felix, Ahmad Rufai Sani, Tein Jack-Rich, Ikeobasi Mokelu.

Newsflash Nigeria had reported that Buhari met with the governors of the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday ahead of the party’s convention.

The president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made the outcome of the meeting known in a statement titled, ‘We must show positive qualities of APC at our convention, President Buhari charges governors’.

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During the meeting held at State House, Abuja, Buhari told the governors that decisions that would enable the party to retain power at the centre should be taken.

Buhari, in a two-page speech, reminded the governors that, while those governors, who just served their first terms, had a field day securing their tickets to return to the office, the outgoing ones, after serving out their constitutional two terms of eight years, also had the privileges to choose their successors.

He, therefore, enjoined them all to let him too enjoy the same privileges through “reciprocity” of similar action, to choose his successor at the proposed June 6 presidential primaries.

“In keeping with the established internal policies of the Party and as we approach the Convention in a few days, therefore, I wish to solicit the reciprocity and support of the Governors and other stakeholders in picking my successor, who would fly the flag of our party for election into the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2023,” Mr Buhari said

The meeting came amid speculations that the president may anoint an aspirant before the convention.

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