...As North accepts party’s leadership position, yields presidential ticket to South

From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja

The cold war raging in the All Progressives Congress (APC), especially between the APC progressive governors and the Presidency over zoning of the party’s positions and the 2023 presidential ticket deepened at the weekend.

Contrary to speculations that the governors were sharply divided in support of two frontline presidential aspirants, a reliable source told Sunday Sun that the major disagreement within the party currently is the insistence by the governors that one of them must emerge the party’s candidate for the 2023 presidential election.

Referencing what transpired during the regime of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the source claimed that the progressive governors are pressuring President Muhammadu Buhari to endorse the arrangements for one of them to emerge as the presidential candidate of the ruling party ahead of other contenders.

Our source equally disclosed that there are indications that the northern caucus of the party has finally conceded the presidential ticket to the South, adding that the final agreement is that while all the party positions hitherto held by the North will henceforth automatically shift to the South and vice-versa, the North-central will produce the party’s national chairman in the planned February national convention.

“The governors are hell-bent on one of them emerging as the party’s standard bearer for the 2023 presidential poll and they are not bulging on it. They have taken their resolutions to Mr President, including the appeal that he endorses the plans for one of them to pick the presidential ticket of the party. The governors had specifically reminded Mr President on the need to toe the line of former President Obasanjo in the 2007 presidential election by supporting and possibly influencing any of them picking the ticket for the 2023 poll.

“However, you know the kind of person Mr President is. Expectedly, the governors did not get a desired categorical response from him. It is certain that he will not brazenly or autocratically impose any candidate on the party members, but he will certainly play a vital role in influencing who gets the ticket,” the source submitted.

Explaining further the political undercurrent and dynamics ahead of the 2023 general elections, our source said that despite the insistence of the majority of the governors on one of them picking the ticket, there are, however, some of them equally supporting the proposal for former President Goodluck Jonathan to be given the ticket with one of them becoming his vice.

“Again, there is some level of division in the camp of the governors because while some of them are rooting for frontline contenders like Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and/or the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, there are an insignificant number of them rooting for former President Jonathan with one of them as the vice president, just as greater percentage of them are favourably disposed to one of their own getting the ticket,” the source said.

On the zoning arrangements for the party’s national leadership positions, our source disclosed that what is perhaps becoming certain was that the leadership of the party in the North may have settled for production of the party’s national leadership positions, conceding the presidential ticket to the South.

“Although it is too early to confirm the permutations of which zone will get the presidential ticket or where it will be micro-zoned, what is, however, certain is that the leaders of the party have unanimously agreed that all the party’s leadership positions formally occupied by the South should go to the North. That must be the reason the North-central has been tactically endorsed to produce the party’s national chairmanship position.

“With this arrangement, it is therefore easy to conclude that the North has also conceded the presidential ticket to the South for now. But I must have to add that this agreement is not yet cast on the marble because there are still several contending forces that may change the political dynamics, especially the tricks by the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Whatever resolutions we arrive at now will be highly dependent on how things unfold in the camp of other political parties because we are not operating in isolation,” the source said.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/apc-governors-move-to-hijack-presidential-ticket-2/

Anyhow

Tinubu please do you have good intentions for Nigerians.

“Again, there is some level of division in the camp of the governors because while some of them are rooting for frontline contenders like Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and/or the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, there are an insignificant number of them rooting for former President Jonathan with one of them as the vice president, just as greater percentage of them are favourably disposed to one of their own getting the ticket,” the source said.

The above is not far from the truth and it also put a lie to the misleading headline. APC governors collectively are not hijacking any presidential ticket. Only very few APC governors are still fighting to get one of them the ticket. In fact, they are barely three at the moment. Once the convention is over, they will be shown the back seat.

As far as 2023 is concerned, most APC governors have taken sides between Asiwaju and Osinbajo. I won’t tell you who has more governors on his side but I’m sure it’s not too difficult to deduce. Things will start taking shape after the election and I won’t be surprised if the party ends up with a consensus candidate by middle of next year.

That arrangement can only work in the PDP not the APC, simply because no southern governor in the ruling party has the kind of clout to emerge when the likes of Tinubu and Osinbajo are there.

Let Buhari endorse his candidate, that's the main thing

Crowwejihadist:
Tinubu please do you have good intentions for Nigerians.

After hypnotizing Lagosians, Tinubu and Good intentions shouldn't be in same sentence.

Media washing

Crowwejihadist:
Tinubu please do you have good intentions for Nigerians.

No politician (PDP and APC) has any good intentions. All na scam

helinues:


Media washing

One of Tinubu's victims.

Kriss216:

One of Tinubu's victim.

Sunday morning crying

Too many assumptions and lies from The Sun

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helinues:


Sunday morning crying

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Crowwejihadist:
Tinubu please do you have good intentions for Nigerians.

Tinubu is business as usual, same as atiku or any other candidate presumed as Frontline..
Except Osibanjo, Osinbanjo represents continuity of Buhari's administration (so that's even worse)

Seun

OlogoJ:
That arrangement can only work in the PDP notthe APC, simply because no southern governor in the ruling party has the kind of clout to emerge when the likes of Tinubu and Osinbajo are there.

Not when the governors are completely in charge

Crowwejihadist:
Tinubu please do you have good intentions for Nigerians.

Yes

Vistra40:


Not when the governors are completely in charge

The president of the FRN is in charge on the APC.

Anything GMB says in the APC, no Governor can go against it, even the Governors combine.

You should have understand how powerful a president is after seeing what happened between GEJ and some governors like Amechi, kwankwaso etc

See the way GEJ outmuscle everybody in the APC and made sure he got the presidential ticket. The likes of Atiku were sent packing.
Never underestimate how powerful a Nigerian president is.

Let's see how

dre11:





...As North accepts party’s leadership position, yields presidential ticket to South






https://www.sunnewsonline.com/apc-governors-move-to-hijack-presidential-ticket-2/


Lalasticlala

DubaiLandLord1:
Yes

The president of the FRN is in charge on the APC.

Anything GMB says in the APC, no Governor can go against it, even the Governors combine.

You should have understand how powerful a president is after seeing what happened between GEJ and some governors like Amechi, kwankwaso etc

See the way GEJ outmuscle everybody in the APC and made sure he got the presidential ticket. The likes of Atiku were sent packing.
Never underestimate how powerful a Nigerian president is.

So long as the president has decided to sit on the fence, the governors hold sway except he takes a stand

BigSarah:


Tinubu is business as usual, same as atiku or any other candidate presumed as Frontline..
Except Osibanjo, Osinbanjo represents continuity of Buhari's administration (so that's even worse)

who do u suggest we vote for?

My own na make Tinubu and his urchins no go drink rat poison like one of their ancestors when BAT refuses to fly in 2023.

hollah123:
who do u suggest we vote for?

Nigeria needs a foreign administrator or we become a confederation...
Because really I don't think none of the current crops of politicians and even ordinary Nigerians want this country to succeed...

I will ultimately make a choice when parties present their own

BigSarah:


Nigeria needs a foreign administrator or we become a confederation...
Because really I don't think none of the current crops of politicians and even ordinary Nigerians want this country to succeed...

I will ultimately make a choice when parties present their own

can u name 2 foreign administrators u think can make a difference

hollah123:
can u name 2 foreign administrators u think can make a difference

I won't name any, but preferably from Switzerland

BigSarah:


I won't name any, but preferably from Switzerland

that means u ain't ready

If your solution can't b named n promoted

Kriss216:

After hypnotizing Lagosians, Tinubu and Good intentions shouldn't be in same sentence.

Just as he hypnotized your father to leave his old mother in the village and run to Lagos.

Putindbutt:

Just as he hypnotized your father to leave his old mother in the village and run to Lagos.

Why do you people always Assume everyone is in Lagos? Is Lagos even up to 10% of Nigeria's population)

PaChukwudi44:

Why do you people always Assume everyone is in Lagos? Is Lagos even up to 10% of Nigeria's population)

Old man, you missed your math class.
what's 10% of 200million?... Mind you, the population of Lagos rose to 21 million from 20 million in 2yrs. I wish Sanwo olu can stop night migration into Lagos.

PaChukwudi44:

Why do you people always Assume everyone is in Lagos? Is Lagos even up to 10% of Nigeria's population)

u dey mind d mumu....If u check very well u will discover that he is not even from lagos..I wish sanwolu will implement what he just said so that his likes can return to osogbo where he originally belong

seunmsg:


The above is not far from the truth and it also put a lie to the misleading headline. APC governors collectively are not hijacking any presidential ticket. Only very few APC governors are still fighting to get one of them the ticket. In fact, they are barely three at the moment. Once the convention is over, they will be shown the back seat.
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As far as 2023 is concerned, most APC governors have taken sides between Asiwaju and Osinbajo. I won’t tell you who has more governors on his side but I’m sure it’s not too difficult to deduce. Things will start taking shape after the election and I won’t be surprised if the party ends up with a consensus candidate by middle of next year.

Some people are pathetically delusional. The statement "YOU CANNOT BE IN LAGOS AND DECIDE ZONING FOR APC" should have given people Insight of what to expect.

Let's cross our fingers watch, more surprises will spring up in coming months.