President Muhammadu Buhari has clarified that no member of the All Progressive Progress is entitled to free ticket in the forthcoming 2023 presidential elections, regardless of their influence.
Speaking on zoning on Arise TV, a programme monitored by ROYAL NEWS, Buhari added that no one will for instance sit in Lagos and determine what the party will do, but would be determined by party and not any single individual.
Buhari added that the caretaker committee of the APC led by Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State was working to reposition the party.
He said, “I told the acting chairman and a committee to give me the report by the end of the month on the convention they are going to conduct and then arrange general elections until 2023. And we started this from bottom to the up, so that members of the party will be sure they are involved in decision making.
“Nobody is just going to sit in Lagos and tell them what to do. This is what we are arranging.”
A media report has it that several supporters of the APC leader in Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, have been clamouring for the party to zone the Presidency to the South, adding that there was a gentleman agreement for such when the party was being formed in 2013.
Tinubu is believed to be nursing a Presidential ambition although he is yet to confirm or deny it.
However, the dissolution of the party’s National Working Committee last year was believed to have been orchestrated by those opposed to Tinubu’s ambition.
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, celebrated APC national leader, was recently reported to have had an overnight meeting with his party’s most desperate opponent and Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja upon his return from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Although some of his political godsons not directly connected to him have tried to dismiss the report as of coincident jam while Tinubu was waiting to catch flight to Lagos and Atiku to catch flight to Yola, more questions have been asked among which is “what flight was Tinubu, owner of a private jet, waiting to catch at midnight that it was exactly at the same Atiku was returning that they jammed?”
