Senate caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has resolved to work towards the emergence of consensus candidates at the forthcoming party’s national convention.
The party’s convention is slated for Saturday, March 26.
Led by Senate President Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, the APC caucus in the national assembly visited President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday.
Speaking with state house correspondents after the meeting, Gbajabiamila said: “Mr President invited the principal officers of the APC to hold today’s meeting with us. Mr President, emphasised the need for us, in the APC to be united, always act as a family, to ensure that we remain focused,” he said.
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“We have the leadership of Nigeria today at the national level and of course, we have many states, about 22 states, under the leadership of the APC. That requires that APC, as a political party, remains very focused, energetic, and purposeful, as it has always been, and ensure that we maintain the trajectory of development for our country.
“Because that is the trust Nigerians gave us in 2015 and renewed that, in 2019.
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“Mr President also emphasised the need for us to ensure that we have a successful convention on the 26th of this month, March. This convention, by way of emphasis, is a very important convention for us in the APC, and by the grace of God, through our processes and procedures, at different levels of the party, the convention would be a very successful one and very peaceful one.
“We hope that we would have achieved so much consensus in selecting and electing the officers for this party so that when we go into the convention, most of the officers would be for affirmation or confirmation.”
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Asked if the party has agreed on a consensus candidate for the position of APC national chairman, the House speaker said: “The essence of this engagement is for the party to achieve consensus, and consensus is a process. It doesn’t just happen like that,”
“So I believe that before we go into the convention square on Saturday, by the grace of God, we would have a lot of consensuses reached and maybe the sort of document that we call or refer to as unity list, that is bringing all the agreed positions where consensus have been achieved in the various sections or geopolitical zones of the country.”
