The National Secretary of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Maimala Buni, on Tuesday said that President
Muhammadu Buhari is the sole candidate of the party for 2019 Presidential
election.
However, the APC scribe also said
that party members interested in contesting for the presidency, were free to
pick the nomination form, but that the National Executive Council (NEC) of the
party had already endorsed the President.
Buni stated this while fielding
questions from State House correspondents, after a group under the auspices of
National Consolidation Ambassadors Network (NCAN), presented Expression of
Interest, Nomination Form for the 2019 election to the President at the New
Banquet Hall Presidential Villa Abuja.
The APC National Secretary
flanked by the Director-General of Buhari’s Campaign Committee and Minister of
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and Chairman Buhari’s Campaign Media Committee,
Festus Keyamo, SAN, said the NEC of the party had since endorsed the President
and by extension, all members of the party have done so.
He said: “Once the National
executive Committee NEC of the party passes a vote of confidence on the
President, that President stands accepted because the NEC is the highest organ
of the party and it met to take the decision, where every interest was
represented so the National Executive Committee of the APC has passed a vote of
confidence on our President and that means every APC member has endorsed him.”
Buni added that Nigeria’s case
was not exceptional because the same scenario obtains in advanced democracies.
“In advance democracy, once the
NEC of a party passes vote of confidence on the President, nobody contests
against the President. The President has been accepted,” he stated.
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