Consensus: Ahmad Lawan’s Endorsement, Adamu’s Personal View – APC NWC
POLITICS DIGEST- The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the endorsement of Senate President Ahmad Lawan was purely Abdullahi Adamu’s personal opinion, not that of the NWC of the party.
The NWC said it will align with the position of governors of the party on power shift to the south.
This was disclosed by National Organising Secretary of the APC, Sulaiman Argungu, at a media briefing on Monday.
APC national chairman Abdullahi Adamu had earlier announced Senator Lawan as the party’s consensus candidate at a meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party on Monday in Abuja.
But hours after Adamu’s pronouncement, President Muhammadu Buhari came out to deny that he had anointed the Senate President as APC consensus presidential candidate.
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Argungu said although Abdullahi Adamu, APC national chairman, had announced Senate President Ahmad Lawan as the party’s consensus candidate at a meeting of the committee on Monday, the NWC stands with the governors on zoning the ticket to the south.
He said, “We were fully briefed by our national chairman, senator Abdullahi Adamu. He did brief us that Senate President Ahmad Lawan is our consensus candidate and it is just the information he gave us. It is not an issue that has been discussed on the floor of the NWC,” Argungu said.
“You are all aware that recently, the northern governors had a meeting that the leadership of this country should go to the [south] and equally, the southern governors also affirmed that. So, we as members of the NWC, we are also with the governors on what they have said. And some minutes ago, the governors from the north have gone to the presidency and have just briefed the press that they are still on what they said with regards to the power shift to the south.
“It is just an information he (Adamu) gave us and it is not an issue that had to be deliberated on the floor of the NWC. It’s information and all of us are entitled to our opinions. We are all democrats. This decision was never taken by the NWC.”
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