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  • All aspirants agreed on a consensus candidate except one-Oyegun

    Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential screening committee, John Oyegun, has revealed that all the presidential aspirants agreed on a consensus candidate except one.

    Oyegun claimed that 99 percent of the aspirants gave their nod for a consensus candidacy in the APC except just one.

    However, Oyegun refused to mention the name of the only aspirant who objected to a consensus candidate.

    Oyegun disclosed this while presenting the committee’s report to the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, on Friday.

    “We engaged every aspirant on the issue of consensus. It is a pleasant surprise that 99 percent agreed that the party is supreme. And that whatever the party decides – with proper consultation – they will likely accept.

    “Only one exception, who said I will accept consensus only if it is for me. I think it is a point that needs to be made and emphasised.

    “So that gives you a lot of leeway in the hours ahead to trim down even more drastically.

    “But finally we think we should not be afraid of a contested primary if anybody insists on a contest,” Oyegun said.

  • Except death, nothing can stop my presidential ambition – Wike

    Except death, nothing can stop my presidential ambition – Wike

    Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has made a decison not to step down his ambition of contesting for the presidency of the country.

    Wike said only death can stop him from contesting the 2023 presidency.

    “The only thing that will make me to quit is death; if I’m alive, we will finish it on 28/29 of May (date for PDP presidential primaries).”

    The Rivers Governor made this statement in an interview on BBC pidgin on Friday in Port Harcourt.

    Wike, who spoke in pidgin English, said “I have been a local government chairman which is the grassroot, I have been a minister and now a Governor. How many of the aspirants have such experience?”

    He explained that former vice President Atiku Abubakar has only been a vice president, not a minister or even Governor.

    “If they put me and other aspirants side by side, the delegates will choose me, because I have been the one going from State to State telling them to vote for me.

    “Why would I step down for anybody? If you want to do consensus, you will do it with equity and fairness.

    “If the consensus you want to do is to gang up against one or two people, why will I join in that type of consensus. The people talking about consensus, are their hands clean? Their hands are not clean,” he added.