2019: No Automatic Ticket For Any APC Presidential Candidate, Says Tinubu

By Niyi Olutunde, Akure

Ahead the 2019 Presidential election, the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared that there will be no automatic ticket for any candidate of the party.

The APC National Leader said this after a closed door meting with the National Chairman of Pan Yoruba Socio Cultural Group Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti  in Akure the Ondo state capital on Wednesday.
According to him, no Governor can appropriate the power of endorsement to themselves, stressing that President Mohammadu Buhari is a believer in the process of rule of law.
His words, ‘ we wanted him even before the last Convention and primaries of the party and Akeredolu is here standing by me, he was not the Governor then, he was one of the leading delegates that voted properly and Buhari was declared winner’.
Adding that, “we followed all the constitutional provisions and individual opinion does not matter at this stage, Buhari will want a normal processes”.
“But if the National body, the National Executive Council (NEC),  could endorse him as our single candidate, we will not be violating INEC regulation and our own party’s constitution.
Buhari, he said has not excluded anybody and he has not affect ambition of any body, adding that, what we are hearing is just campaigns.
While commenting on the need for the visit to Pa Fasoranti, he said, he was in Akure to acknowledge the quality leadership of Pa Fasoranti ” in our own race as a great leader of Omoluabi”.
Most of the political  leaders in attendance were, the former Governor of Osun state, Chief Bisi Akande,  Basorun Sehinde Arogbofa,  Baba Omojola, Chief Olu Falae, Chief Femi Aluko and the former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Bakkita Bello.

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