Says Atiku’s emergence’ll not deter southern presidency

A founding member of the All Progressives Congress and Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, on Sunday, urged the governing APC to adopt the consensus route in electing its presidential candidate in its forthcoming primary election.

This, he said, would prevent what he described as the “dollar rain” allegedly witnessed at Saturday’s presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party and save the naira from further depreciation.

“…if that could happen in a party with about 731 (767) delegates, imagine what will happen if the APC with about 2,322 delegates is allowed to indulge in Dollar Rain,” he stated.

According to him, Atiku Abubakar’s “opportunistic victory” will have little or no impact on the APC’s election of a presidential candidate from the South-East.

Okechukwu made these known in a statement he signed on Sunday titled ‘Mr President, save Naira from obscene Dollar-monetised presidential primaries, Okechukwu pleads.’

The PUNCH reports that, ahead of the primaries of the governing party and the main opposition, aspirants engaged in a frantic dollar buy-out nationwide, leading to the further depreciation of the naira.

Citing the withdrawal speech of one of the PDP presidential aspirants, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, who said the primaries have been “obscenely monetised,” Okechukwu said the consensus route would ensure that the forthcoming APC presidential primary does not follow the PDP’s highest-bidder dollar rain.

In his speech before withdrawing from the PDP primary, the former banker, Hayatu-Deen, said, “it is, therefore, based on personal principles and with great humility that I have decided to withdraw from this contest, which has been obscenely monetised.”

According to Okechukwu: “Albeit, our sister opposition political party has every constitutional right to elect whoever they want as their flagbearer; the dollar rain is worrisome as noted by Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, who dubbed it obscenely monetised presidential primary.

“If the naira is already bleeding because of dollar rain on 731 (767) delegates; please, better imagine the degree of depreciation of the naira if another blitz of dollar rain is allowed to be splashed on 2,322 delegates.”

He, therefore, called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to consider the consensus option in the APC presidential primary.

He explained, “All the three (modes of primary) are democratic and are in our law books. Please, is it not paradoxical that the governors and ex-governors who oppose consensus had adopted the same consensus and even outright imposition to select their successors?

“To me, they have lost the moral high ground to oppose Mr President from adopting such a legal mode of primary election. One’s appeal is that a politically correct aspirant should be consensually presented.”


The party chieftain, who congratulated the newly elected PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, dismissed insinuations that with Atiku at the helm, the APC would not adhere to the rotation convention of electing a presidential candidate of the Igbo extraction or a southerner.

“Methinks His Excellency Atiku Abubakar’s opportunistic victory will have little or no impact on (the) APC’s election of a presidential candidate from among Ndigbo aspirants or by extension the southern belt aspirants. I don’t think Mr President I know even going by consensus will deny the south their turn.

“Most importantly, one, northern voters are sophisticated, having voted for Chiefs MKO Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo, with all indicators they will vote southerner this time around so as to shame the PDP for breaching the rotation convention in their constitution.

“Second, there are a number of northern voters who are patriots, who believe sincerely in the ancient doctrine of equity, natural justice and the imperative of unity of our dear country. Going south is the best solution to smoothen the polarisation in the land.

“Thirdly, the dormant Igbo voters in Kano, Lagos and other towns plus core non-Igbo APC voters will be woken up to trounce Waziri Adamawa at the polls,” he said.

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He's right though. Finally someone is thinking logically.

Well done Mr Okechukwu. You have to give it to Igbos when it comes to money management...

press9jatv:


Northerners with all indicators they will vote southerner this time around so as to shame the PDP for breaching the rotation convention in their constitution.

“Second, there are a number of northern voters who are patriots, who believe sincerely in the ancient doctrine of equity, natural justice and the imperative of unity of our dear country. Going south is the best solution to smoothen the polarisation in the land.

Mr Okechukwu, trust these Northerners at your own peril. Don't be surprised to see buhari voting for Atiku..

Hmm. Tinubu is a goner. Osinbajo will be favoured.

Ẹlẹnu yamayama...shey na hìn dollars? Oya make Tinubu the consesus candidate then. You sha want to bring him down by all means, but God will always stand with him. He will prevail IJN!

funshint:
Ẹlẹnu yamayama...shey na hìn dollars? Oya make Tinubu the consesus candidate then. You sha want to bring him down by all means, but God will always stand with him. He will prevail IJN!

Make a Southern Muslim the consensus candidate, are you well mentally, is APC an Islamic political party?

Hmm,make sence

What dis man do not understand about the delegates is that they will collect money from all angles and still vote for dere choice. Ask WIKE e go explain better.. Wen all candidates dey do consultation no state delegates rejected any candidate den welcome all of dem but 4 dere mind dey know wia dere support belong so 4get it is not abt money bt dem must collect from all aspirants.

APC should adopt consensus.
It's the best cos of many aspirants.

Buckeyemedia1:
Make a Southern Muslim the consensus candidate, are you well mentally, is APC an Islamic political party?

Help me ask him oo
After doing 8 disastrous years of Muslim rule they still want us to do another 8years again no be juju be dat

Tell us if your have candidate

Allow delegate cash out abeg

Nope.. Money must be shared..

If you collect money from any politician, no matter the party they are to the detriment of our darling nation and you come here to disturb us, na Amadioha and Ogun go do collabo strike una.

God bless all sane, good, honest and hardworking Nigerians out there, those of us that support our candidates for a better Nigeria without collecting any dime from anybody will be truly blessed.

Everyone conscience will judge them.

God bless Nigeria.

We Yorubas from the six Southwest states stand gidigba with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Baba o, on your mandate we stand. No shaking! Turakin Adamawa, we prostrate for you. You are greater than Awolowo, bigger than Abiola and smarter than Tilumpoo. Baba o, carry go. Any Yoruba man wey no support you still dey darkness.

Signed

HelliAnus
Iragbiji ward 1
Osun State

mumu. man wants to spoil muti-billionaire business for delegates.

Let it rain dollars jooor

Haha!

For where? Let the rain fall abeggi consensus in apc is a dream

Tilumbu must contest against osinbajo without anyone stepping down for nobody, amaechi must be there too and if joNa wants to fall his hands let him enter the ring

Bourdillion is becoming crowdy
Tilumbu’s bullions have started loading
His thugs have started mobilizing
Their stomachs have been rumbling
BIG MOUTHS are ready to swallow BIG DOLLARZ

no babanriga for this one, everything dey follow gullet enter belle. Gandollar style nor go work for apc convention ground at all.

lol you're mad u no want make delegates chop abi


Consensus ko Cornelius ni...

Dollar rain is a lame excuse to deny democratic core principle of election.

People have aspirations and desires. What you need is a mechanism to stop dollar rain. Not deny people the right to vote and be voted for in a free and fair primaries.

It's obvious, APC is confused like they have been in 7 years. They never held a convention for 7 years. No primaries to elect a party leadership. They ended up appointing a consensus candidate. For a country of 200 million people, you want to hand pick a successor in the name of consensus candidate. Shame on APC.

Nigerians must see through this confusion which plays out in their clueless governance in the last 7 years.

press9jatv:
Hmm. Tinubu is a goner. Osinbajo will be favoured.

where do you people go to buy your brains, go and ask for a refund o!

It is only tinubu that can give atiku a run for his money

If apc fields another candidate it’s an easy win for atiku cos them no reach

To those shouting osinbajo

Which political structure does he have?
Someone saraki called a mere comissioner is who some people believe will defeat a deep rooted seasoned politician like atiku?
Will d core north vote a pastor?
Can d likes of ganduje,el rufai n co flow well with pastor osinbajo d way they will relate with tinubu politically

What I notice here is that majority of pdp supporters are rooting for osinbajo cos they want an easy win for atiku

will Tinubu, osibanjo and Amaechi agree to this?

press9jatv:
Hmm. Tinubu is a goner. Osinbajo will be favoured.

Shebi you get Papa. Tell him to come out and contest nah

Ok

This man call abdullahi adamu is a blood sucker

Salvador1:
APC should adopt consensus.
It's the best cos of many aspirants.

And over 40 aspirants would vie for thr presidency next year.

We should also make it by consensus.