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APC
leaders during the National Convention in Lagos last week (Photo credit: Sahara
Reporters Media)
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National leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party
have hit a deadlock at the Rivers State government lodge in Abuja in a meeting
convened to choose a Vice Presidential candidate for the 2015 presidential
election.
SaharaReporters
reports sources at the meeting said the deadlock arrived after state governors
within the party rejected the candidature of former Lagos governor, Bola Ahmed
Tinubu, as well as Professor Yemi Osinbajo, a former Lagos State Attorney
General under Tinubu.
Witnesses
disclose that Mr. Tinubu did not attend the meeting after he sensed the
hostility of the governors at the venue towards him, choosing to send emissaries
to submit his nominees.
The
newly-chosen presidential candidate of the party, Muhammadu Buhari, was in
attendance but did not utter a word throughout the rowdy meeting, the sources
confirmed.
After
the meeting reached a deadlock, a committee of six leaders chosen from the
geo-political zones was set up to resolve the logjam, but after several hours
of meeting, it also failed to agree on a candidate. Some members of the
committee are Chief Bisi Akande (Southwest), Dr. Chris Ngige (Southeast),
Danjuma Goje (Northeast) and Bukola Saraki (Northcentral).
The
meeting then dispersed with a final directive to Buhari to go ahead and choose
whomever he deems fit as his VP.
Insiders posit Buhari would
most likely revert to Tinubu to nominate a candidate for him as a mark of
respect and in order to keep his promise to obtain his input.
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