Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state, says the presidential
hopefuls of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have agreed to support
President Muhammadu Buhari’s anointed candidate.
On Saturday, the president met with the aspirants at the
presidential villa, Abuja.
At the meeting, he asked them to “come up with a formidable”
consensus candidate before the party holds its primary election.
The Kogi governor, who is also a presidential hopeful, said
he will support Buhari’s choice.
“Whoever Mr President
will come up with, I’m in 100 percent in support of that. It is not only me, in
the dinner, we had yesterday with Mr President, almost everybody, in fact, 100
percent of us, who are aspiring, have agreed that whoever Mr President will
choose among us we are going to support him,” he said.
Asked if Bola Tinubu, former Lagos governor, was also in
agreement, Bello said he was present and did not object.
“He was seated in the meeting and he did not object to it,
so If someone speaks on your behalf and you did not have anything in contrary
and you keep quiet then it is binding on you,” he added.
Furthermore, Bello said the position of the northern APC
governors on zoning the presidency to the south is non-binding.
The Kogi governor described the decision as “self-opinion”.
The northern governors had on Saturday expressed support for
power shift to the south.
Bello said the development is a “recipe” to further divide
the country along ethnic and regional lines.
“Going by that
statement, if assuming, without conceding, that such statement came from some
of my colleagues, it is just self-opinion,” he said.
“It is not binding on Nigerians, it is not binding on me, it
is not binding on the party because PGF north is not an organ of the party. It
is not binding on northerners and Nigerians, generally.
“Let me quickly sound a note of caution to all Nigerians and
advise some of my colleagues who may take it or leave it, that this is just a
recipe to divide the country further along ethnic or regional lines.”
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