The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, on Friday, said the party has not decided on which of the six zones in Nigeria will produce the presidential candidate for the 2023 election, despite the commencement of the sale of nomination forms.

This is even as the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) led by Prof Ango Abdullahi announced fresh moves to pressure the major political parties to throw their tickets open to all sections of the country, saying that the “power shift arrangement is already dead and buried.”

Speaking to newsmen after presenting the Ekiti APC gubernatorial candidate, Abiodun Oyebanji, to President Muhammadu Buhari in the State House, Abuja, Adamu noted that the decision on which part of the country should produce the ruling party candidate was beyond his purview as Chairman.

“The party has not made a decision and I cannot pre-empt what the party decision will be,” Adamu said.

APC had swapped its national offices between North and South, leading to the emergence of Adamu from the North Central as the national chairman.

Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State had said just before the last national convention of the party that even though the APC had not decided on zoning the presidential ticket, the swapping of national offices was an indication that its presidential candidate would come from southern Nigeria.

On the criticism trailing the price tags of the party’s nomination forms, Adamu said the APC has no regrets over the decision as it was meant to separate the serious contenders from pretenders, adding that “we did our homework.”

The APC chairman insisted that the party was poised to discourage parties that have no chance of winning elections to sponsor individuals to destabilise its plans.

He further said the party raised the cost so as to raise sufficient funds to successfully prosecute the forthcoming elections.

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Lalasticlala
Mynd44

Keep shifting ground, the person that will still win the primaries is known already. Party chieftains with lies are like 5&6.

Political power intoxicates these malos a lot hence the dilly dallying. I said it and will continue to say it-Nigeria does not need APC, PDP or any political parties but a total redefinition of its nationhood or existence first before any other thing.

Wailers and Igbos, come and start telling us how this is targeted at Tinubu and how Adamu has been eating Tinubu’s money since 1999 blablabla...

Alright! Cat and mouse game with PDP should end. Tinubu is the only zone that will present the next president in APC.

seunmsg:
Wailers and Igbos, come and start telling us how this is targeted at Tinubu and how Adamu has been eating Tinubu’s money since 1999 blablabla...

Ipob no dey the content of the post at all at all but na ipob you dey see for dream morning afternoon night feeling so threatened everytime. No peace of mind in any way.
Now,tell me who is the wailer?

Legally, zoning isn't in the Constitution but there's a verbal agreement ab initio to rotate the Presidency between North and South. The National Chairman doesn't have to declare it. Most Northerners have already settled for Jagaban so, it doesn't even matter.

Why are you playing the waiting game.

PDP must wait and allow APC choose their flagbearer or else they will perish.

Normal words. He gave a good reply.

We all know the reality coz besides Yahaya Bello, no other Northern candidate declared in APC.

trutharena:
Normal words. He gave a good reply.

We all know the reality coz besides Yahaya Bello, no other Northern candidate declared in APC.

National leader suppose get right of first refusal like he gets in Lagos for his aspirants

No be adamu the PDP decampee go dey tell our bullion leader that have never decamped what to do

seunmsg:
Wailers and Igbos, come and start telling us how this is targeted at Tinubu and how Adamu has been eating Tinubu’s money since 1999 blablabla...

evil people run when no one is chasing them,if you believe this statement have validated buhari support for Tinubu, why not keep quiet and enjoy it? You guy's will have sense last last i swear.

Translation

Nothing is decided yet in apc

If zoning that the party leaders publicly agreed to is still a debate, is it mode of primaries that tilumbu people have decided in budillion

Truthisunique2:


National leader suppose get right of first refusal like atiku demanded in PDP

No be adamu the PDP decampee go dey tell our bullion leader that have never decamped what to do

National leader need no right of first refusal because he is confident of winning the presidential primaries. That is how he is different from Atiku.

You can wail all you want, Adamu is the APC chairman and he must be fair to all aspirants as a democrat.

If not for Meth why should you be worried about APC and not your darling PDP. Abi you don abandon Obi Pandora?

trutharena:


National leader need no right of first refusal because he is confident of winning the presidential primaries. That is how he is different from Atiku.

You can wail all you want, Adamu is the APC chairman and he must be fair to all aspirants as a democrat.

If not for Meth why should you be worried about APC and not your darling PDP. Abi you don abandon Obi Pandora?

fractional leader when be trash

If he collect right of first refusal to choose next Lagos gov how cum he suddenly doesn't need it for his oversized ego nationally

Is this not why he rejected his political son that have grown big to contest with him

colorsofrainbow:

Ipob no dey the content of the post at all at all but na ipob you dey see for dream morning afternoon night feeling so threatened everytime. No peace of mind in any way.
Now,tell me who is the wailer?

Because Na ipob people carry Tinubu matter for head everywhere on social media.

seunmsg:


Because Na ipob people carry Tinubu matter for head everywhere on social media.

Happy wailing

North 2023

Power to the people

Siwel25:
Legally, zoning isn't in the Constitution but there's a verbal agreement ab initio to rotate the Presidency between North and South. The National Chairman doesn't have to declare it. Most Northerners have already settled for Jagaban so, it doesn't even matter.

Ordinary, this is not even news but you see the way some of these wailing Igbos always turn unrelated issues around to give it a different meaning, one just have to quickly put them in their place.

Orji Uzor Kalu echoed the same thing.

If zoning is in view, why the Southwest instead of North Central or Northeast?

In just about a month's tine, the whole suspense game will be over.

seunmsg:
Wailers and Igbos, come and start telling us how this is targeted at Tinubu and how Adamu has been eating Tinubu’s money since 1999 blablabla...

Dont always assume every politician in the country has been benefitting from Tinubu.Adamu was A governor same time as Tinubu.He was not even Tinubu"s choice for National chairman to begin with

Siwel25:
Legally, zoning isn't in the Constitution but there's a verbal agreement ab initio to rotate the Presidency between North and South. The National Chairman doesn't have to declare it. [b][/b]Most Northerners have already settled for Jagaban so, it doesn't even matter.

Biko when was the census of Northerners supporting your Jagaban done before it was ascertained that there are in the majority?

trutharena:


National leader need no right of first refusal because he is confident of winning the presidential primaries. That is how he is different from Atiku.

You can wail all you want, Adamu is the APC chairman and he must be fair to all aspirants as a democrat.

If not for Meth why should you be worried about APC and not your darling PDP. Abi you don abandon Obi Pandora?

Oga Tinubu is not National leader of APC!!! That the SW media created an imaginary title that does not exist anywhere in the party's constitution does not mean it is real.He is not even a member of the party's NEC to begin with.

If anyone at all should be called APC's party leader then it should be Buhari

etokhana:

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Lalasticlala
Mynd44

There's nothing to consider..... The party chairman already from the North
So there is no way Presidential candidate will also emerge from the North. It is just a common sense.

When I was supporting the motion that PDP should zone there presidential ticket to the SOUTH, some few southerners who also support PDP were busy advocating for "power reclamation first" by using a northerner probably Atikwu to reclaim power from APC,

What this group of people seeking for "temporal" reclamation of power(as the call it) by using a northerner fail to understand is that the are setting a "Precedent" or practise that would likely continue in the nearest future even if the atikwu manage to win the presidential election
next year and spend 8years in office what make's this group of southerners think he would hand over power back to a SOUTHERNER and not his fellow northerner?? If APC whose presidential candidate buhari who is from the north could spend 8years in power and yet the Northern caucus are still insisting on throwing there partie's ticket open in other to Favour them instead of naturally allowing the SOUTHERNERS in the spirit of equity,fairness and justice to take over power. What makes the PDP advocates supporting atikwu think that after 8years of his rule thesame scenario playing out in APC now would not also come into play in PDP?

" This is even as the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) led by Prof Ango Abdullahi announced fresh moves to pressure the major political parties to throw their tickets open to all sections of the country, saying that the “power shift arrangement is already dead and buried.”

Would prof Ango abdullahi be making such a statement above If it were to be a southerner who is just rounding up his 8years in office and instead of the northerners to be given there own chance, the ticket is now been thrown open with a southerner likely emerging for a further 8years making it 16years of rule for the southerners, how would he feel if the southerners are the one's doing this presently?

If a northerner is clamouring for power to remain in the North in 2023 I can understand there greed and sentiment, but for those southern atikwu advocates who for so called "temporal reclamation" or as some of them would normally say "let us get power back from APC using atikwu first" is it that your own southern region is that useless to you that you are trying to tell the whole world that power should remain in the north, what makes you think a southerner can't win an election in this country except a northerner? Obasonjo a southerner that defeated buhari and even good luck Jonathan defeated thesame buhari
a notherner in his first tenure are they not all from the south? with the present failures of the APC government what makes you think with a good candidate from the southern region and massive campaign to convince nigerians whosoever the APC is to present as there candidate, such a candidate in PDP can defeat such an opponent......

Well since some group of individuals from the south have so be-little there southern region and instead of standing there ground and ensure power returns to the south are now the ones clamouring for atikwu to win for "temporal reclamation" of power, I just hope we would not hear the wailing of been marginalized by a northern atikwu tomorrow, or wailing of atikwus government been a failure and power to return to the south after his tenure after 8years........if you(the southerners) in PDP can't fight for that power now, don't be deceived that after 8years OF your so called Atikwu's government that your region would now finally get it on a platter of gold, you would all be deceiving yourselves