President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has denied anointing any presidential aspirant, noting that there will be no imposition of any candidate on the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 election.
The President made this known during a meeting with the Governors at the State House, Abuja which was contained in a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu on Monday.
The statement said, “President Buhari cleared all doubts about where he stands on the choice of a presidential candidate for the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, declaring before the party’s 14 governors of northern states that he has ‘no preferred candidate,’ and has ‘anointed no one,’ and is determined to ensure that ‘there shall be no imposition of any candidate on the party.’
President Buhari said, “the party is important and its members must be respected, and made to feel they are important.”
“You were elected as I was. Have a clear mind as I have. God gave us the chance; we have no reason to complain. We must be ready to take pain as we take the joy. Allow the delegates to decide. The Party must participate, nobody will appoint anybody,” he said.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, Governor Simon Bako Lalong and Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of the Progressive Governors Forum said they had come to affirm the position of the Northern Governors that the party’s candidate in the presidential election shall come from the southern part of the country.
“They apologised to the President for the leakage of their signed memorandum which was not in support of any particular candidate and gave assurances to the President on their readiness to accept his leadership on the matter,” the statement noted.
