The All Progressive Congress (APC) has disclosed that it was still undecided on where it would zone its presidential ticket in the forthcoming general elections about a month to its primary elections.
This was coming despite the commencement of the sale of nomination forms by the party earlier in the week.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, disclosed that no decision has been reached with regards to which zone should produce its presidential candidate for the 2023 election.
Speaking to State House correspondents on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja shortly after presenting the Ekiti APC gubernatorial candidate, Abiodun Oyebanji, to President Muhammadu Buhari, he pointed out that the decision on which part of the country should produce a Presidential candidate for the ruling party candidate was beyond him.
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Africa Today News, New York reports that this was coming even as the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) led by Prof. Ango Abdullahi, had earlier initiated fresh moves to pressure the major political parties to throw their tickets open to all sections of the country, stressing that the ‘power shift arrangement is already dead and buried’ and would not stand in 2023.
While maintaining that the APC was yet to take a decision on that, he maintained that ‘I am today privileged to be the chairman of the party. The party is greater than me. The party has not made a decision and I cannot preempt what the party decision will be.’
Africa Today News, New York recalls that the ruling party had just a few weeks ago swapped its national offices between North and South, leading to the emergence of Adamu from the North Central as the national chairman.
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State had said just before the last national convention of the party that even though the APC had not decided on zoning the presidential ticket, the swapping of national offices was an indication of where its presidential candidate would come from.
Adamu also said the party does not regret the high cost of nomination forms for candidates seeking elective positions under the party.
He asserted that the APC was keen to discourage parties that have no chance of winning elections to sponsor individuals to play the role of spoilers.
According to him the cost also had to be exorbitant because of the need to raise sufficient funds to successfully prosecute coming elections.
On the alleged recalcitrance by some cabinet members to resign to enable them face their political ambition, Adamu wrote it off as a legal matter which he would not comment on for now.
Africa Today News, New York