APC Vice Chairman Reveals Two Names Powerful Forces Wanted As Presidential Candidate Instead Of Tinubu

APC Vice Chairman Reveals Two Names Powerful Forces Wanted As Presidential Candidate Instead Of Tinubu

Malam Salihu Lukman, National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (North-West), revealed on Tuesday that some forces outside the APC were responsible for the failed attempt to impose the candidacy of former President Goodluck Jonathan and Central Bank Governor Dr. Godwin Emefiele to prevent Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from clinching the presidential ticket.

Lukman noted that it took the combined efforts of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. ), the National Working Committee, and the APC governors to prevent the move from becoming a reality.

The veteran politician and member of the APC National Working Committee made the claim in a statement titled “Electoral contests and public expectations: Matching hopes with realities.”

According to him, When it became clear that Jonathan and Emefiele’s kites would not fly, the masterminds of the plot, who were not APC members, positioned Senate President Ahmad Lawan as the party’s consensus candidate for Buhari to anoint.

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He said, “It may also be important to note that the emergence of Asiwaju Tinubu as the APC’s presidential candidate was the product of strong internal contest. There may be temptation to narrow the contest to the dynamics around the question of whether there will be an anointed aspirant who would have been crowned as the consensus candidate, which wouldn’t have been Asiwaju Tinubu.

“Many had their preferred candidates for the position of national chairman. Some of the presidential aspirants were able to expand their lobbies to some of the influential people around the president and perhaps succeeded to convince President Buhari to nominate Senator Abdullahi Adamu for the position. And shortly after the election of Adamu as the National Chairman of the APC, negotiation for the emergence of a so-called consensus presidential candidate was activated.

“It may also be important to remind Nigerians that the scheming around emergence of a so-called consensus candidate was ridiculously stretched beyond the APC to include people like former President Goodluck Jonathan and Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria.

“These were never members of the APC. But with the active collaboration of some influential people outside the APC, some sophisticated mobilisation of so-called ‘hundred eminent businessmen, political, media and civil society leaders, including 14 current governors, 13 former governors as well as three former senate presidents’ commenced around April 2022.

“Gradually, this scheming shifted and was entrenched within the APC.

“Eventually, when these schemers couldn’t succeed in popularising both Jonathan and Emefiele as possible contenders to emerge as consensus presidential candidates for the APC, the Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan was recruited and promoted. It is on record that Adamu, on the eve of the convention that birthed Asiwaju Tinubu as the candidate, announced to the NWC members that Lawan was their consensus candidate of the party.”

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Continuing, the Kaduna-based politician stated that disgruntled NWC members, as well as some progressive governors, protested the move.

“This is completely inconsiderate of the popular agitation for power shift in the country. It is also insensitive of the potential instability that the choice of another northerner emerging as president of the country could cause. Ahead of the APC National Convention, the APC governors from the North had already declared their opposition against a northerner emerging as the APC presidential candidate.

“Combinations of all of these in so many ways contributed towards tilting support of many APC leaders towards Asiwaju Tinubu. Certainly, Asiwaju Tinubu’s personal quality given his track records both as a businessman, politician, and elected Governor of Lagos State between 1999 and 2007 were also there. He has over the years proven himself as a fighter for democracy. This is one characteristic that has defined him and perhaps strengthen him to survive many personal attacks on his person and his integrity.

“The administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo investigated him on many of the issues that are being used to smear his name such drugs. Renown radical lawyer and human rights activists, late Chief Gani Fawehinmi challenged his academic credentials unsuccessfully in courts. Many journalists and activists questioned his integrity but were not able to establish any proof.

“Again, thanks to President Buhari, the contest for the presidential candidate of the APC was thrown open and Asiwaju won with a wide merging,” he stated.

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