Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), says choosing a vice-presidential candidate for the party was
done after “careful” legal consultations.
Adamu spoke on Monday while addressing state house
correspondents after accompanying Biodun Oyebanji, governor-elect of Ekiti, on
a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Kabiru Faskari, an APC chieftain, had said Kabir Masari was
chosen as the running mate to Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the party.
Although APC has not officially confirmed if the VP
candidate is a placeholder or not, there have been speculations on the
possibility that Masari may not want to step down if he is indeed standing in
as Tinubu’s running mate.
Speaking on the development, Adamu said such speculations
should be dismissed.
“We are not in the speculative world. We are governed by the
laws of the land. There’s nothing our presidential candidate has done with
regards to returning his forms that is not within the confines of the law of
the land,” the APC chairman said.
“Everything we’ve done so far, we have done very carefully
with legal consultation and we are cocksure, we’re not going to have the kind
of speculation that you are professing at this point in time.
“We’re very
comfortable with what we have done. It is still pessimism. However, not in that
school of thought yet. We don’t have to be there.”
Also speaking on allegations of vote-buying during the Ekiti
governorship election, Adamu appealed to the media to avoid reporting negative
issues about the country’s polls.
“I just want to add a word or two in the response of our
governor-elect on the issue of vote buying. As a patriotic Nigerian that is
privileged to lead the ruling party in this country today, I want to only
appeal to the media. Please don’t partake in portraying negative attitudes in
our processes,” he said.
“If you do so, you are compromising. I’m sorry to say so.
You’re compromising the integrity of our process as a country.”
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) has said the concept of “placeholder” for vice-presidential candidates
“has no place in our constitutional and legal framework”.
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