Abdullahi Adamu and Ahmed Lawann
By Our Reporter
All is not yet uhuru for southern aspirants of the All Progressives Congress regarding the zoning of the presidency to the South as the National Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu allegedly announced Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan as the party’s consensus candidate. He made the announcement at the meeting of National Working Committee on Monday in Abuja.
Adamu’s adoption of Lawan as consensus candidate is against the position of 11 APC northern governors who endorsed that power must shift to the South after President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure.
Adamu told the National Working Committee that he arrived at the choice of Lawan after consultation with President Buhari.
Adamu’s submission is in tandem with that of the presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu who denied media reports that President Muhammadu Buhari directed the zoning of the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress to the South.
Shehu in a chat with BBC on Sunday, described the reports that Buhari had asked party leaders to choose a Southern aspirant as the party’s consensus candidate as false.
