No automatic ticket for buhari in 2019-Tinubu

Chief Bola Tinubu said President Buhari
will not get automatic ticket for 2019
- He said the party will follow due
democratic process
- The APC chief expressed optimism that
the president will also agree with it
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has
revealed that the All Progressives
Congress (APC) will follow due
democratic process in selecting its
presidential candidate for the 2019
elections.
The Punch reports that the APC leader
spoke on Wednesday, November 22
shortly after his meeting with leaders of
the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural
organisation, the Afenifere, at the
residence of the leader of the
organisation, Pa. Reuben Fasoranti in
Akure, Ondo State.
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Also at the meeting were Mr. Rotimi
Akeredolu, his deputy, Mr. Agboola
Ajayi and acting chairman of the APC in
the state, Mr. Ade Ademehin.
Tinubu said the AOC had not endorsed
President Muhammadu Buhari as its
sole candidate for 2019.
He insisted that due process will be
followed and that the president would
also support it.
“No governors can appropriate the
power of endorsement to themselves.
Buhari is a believer in the process. The
Buhari, I know, believes in the rule of
law. We wanted him even before the last
convention and primary of the party and
Akeredolu is here standing with me, he
was not the governor then. He was one
of the leading delegates that voted
properly and Buhari was a clear winner.
“We followed all the constitutional
provision and an individual or group’s
opinion does not really matter at this
stage, Buhari will want a normal
process. Buhari that, I know, who says
he will lose at any convention? But if the
national body, the NEC (National
Executive Committee) and all of us as
members endorsed him as our single
candidate, we will not be violating INEC
regulations, we will not be violating our
party constitution.
“What you are hearing is just a
campaign by other people who might
like to do so. Buhari has not excluded
anybody, and he has not infringed on
anybody’s ambition if there is. We can
not be sycophantic about it.”
Meanwhile, LETSKNOW had reported that
the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu,
declared that the APC will remain in
power in 2019 as it would emerge
victorious at the forthcoming elections.
The first-class traditional ruler,
therefore, urged Nigerians to continue
to work towards its success as the ruling
party cannot be eased out so soon.
Oba Akiolu further called the national
leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,
a stubborn man but added that this is
for the right reason.
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