Atiku: No Consensus Candidate In APC

Former Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku,
has declared that there would be no
consensus presidential candidate for the
opposition party, All Progressives Congress,
APC, in next year's election.
Aiku, who is a Presidential aspirant of the APC, made
the statement in Akure, the capital of Ondo State
after holding several meetings with delegates and
party leaders in the state as part of his mobilisation
drive.
"We have gone past the stage of reaching any
consensus or producing a consensus
candidate," Atiku reportedly told the delegates.
Atiku Abubakar of APC.
The former governor of Adamawa state added
that: "We have gotten past the era where someone
can impose any candidate on the party.
Atiku also said that he is very optimistic that APC
would conduct a free and fair primaries for all its
aspirants.
According to him, "no one can impose candidate on
the party and on the consensus issue, there is no
way they can use consensus because we have
grown beyond that.
"We are preparing for primaries. Who are the party
leaders? we are the leaders of the party and there
won't be imposition".
When asked if he can defeat Gen Muhammadu
Buhari, Alhaji Atiku said "let's wait till when I would
prove my popularity at the primaries proper."
He assured that he would emerge victorious in the
contest irrespective of the seeming popularity of his
main opponent.
The former Vice President, who applauded the state
delegates for receiving him, noted that he had been
counting the numbers of delegates that would
support his ambition in every states he visits.
Responding to Atiku at APC's secretariat in Akure,
the state Chairman of the party in Ondo state, Hon
Isaac Kekemeke said the party saw Atiku's visit as
that of an elder visiting members of his family.
Kekemeke said: "What we know is that any of our
party's aspirants who emerge would be better that
Goodluck Jonathan.
"We have not taken any position as a party on any
aspirant. But we are excited at the visit of Atiku as
an elder in the party."

Posted By David Aniemeka