Members of the National Caucus of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on March 23, after their meeting at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, revealed their candidate for the 2019 presidential election in a seeming lure to President Muhammadu Buhari to seek a second term.
The national caucus which comprise of serving and former governors, the National Assembly leadership, and selected members of the national executive of the party, at the meeting, said the endorsement of President Buhari for a second term would help to stabilise the polity in the face of what members described as 'the 16-year rot inherited from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.'
According to Vanguard, one of the issues agreed on at the meeting, was that President Buhari should be given opportunity to seek a second term, though some caucus members also agreed that it would be too early in the day to kick start a second term campaign for the President.
It was gathered that the issue was brought up as a way of resting restiveness among some party leaders who have been divided over their various aspirations for 2019.
The positioning by different party leaders on 2019 has been blamed for the problems that led to the crisis in the National Assembly and also the inability of the party to inaugurate its Board of Trustees, BoT, till date.
A source privy to the development revealed yesterday saying, "with Buhari contesting in 2019, those who have been squabbling will now have to queue up behind him and put the interest of the party ahead."
Some leading senators in the party also pledged to unify themselves in the face of the prospect of losing their influence to the more united PDP caucus.
Photo Credit: Bashir Ahmad (Personal Assistant to President Buhari on New Media)
Members of the National Caucus of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on March 23, after their meeting at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, revealed their candidate for the 2019 presidential election in a seeming lure to President Muhammadu Buhari to seek a second term.
The national caucus which comprise of serving and former governors, the National Assembly leadership, and selected members of the national executive of the party, at the meeting, said the endorsement of President Buhari for a second term would help to stabilise the polity in the face of what members described as 'the 16-year rot inherited from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.'
According to Vanguard, one of the issues agreed on at the meeting, was that President Buhari should be given opportunity to seek a second term, though some caucus members also agreed that it would be too early in the day to kick start a second term campaign for the President.
It was gathered that the issue was brought up as a way of resting restiveness among some party leaders who have been divided over their various aspirations for 2019.
The positioning by different party leaders on 2019 has been blamed for the problems that led to the crisis in the National Assembly and also the inability of the party to inaugurate its Board of Trustees, BoT, till date.
A source privy to the development revealed yesterday saying, "with Buhari contesting in 2019, those who have been squabbling will now have to queue up behind him and put the interest of the party ahead."
Some leading senators in the party also pledged to unify themselves in the face of the prospect of losing their influence to the more united PDP caucus.
Photo Credit: Bashir Ahmad (Personal Assistant to President Buhari on New Media)
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