The crucial meeting convened by the top brass of South-West politics failed to achieve a consensus candidate for the All Progressives Congress ahead of the primaries.
However, leaders of the All Progressives Congress who convened on Lagos House Marina on Friday, cautioned presidential aspirants from the zone to guard against their utterances.
During the meeting which held behind closed doors, it also resolved that name calling and other personal attacks should not be encouraged by the aspirants and their supporters.
The aspirants were advised to work with anyone among them who emerges as the party’s candidate for the presidential election.
Sources say that the leaders also called on the aspirants to ensure that the South-West does not lose the opportunity to produce the President in 2023.
According to the source, “The issue of betrayal was put to rest as the elders affirmed that everyone who desired to run for any political office whatsoever was not encumbered in any way at all.”
The issue of a consensus candidate was contrary to expectations, not listed as part of the agenda, but was said to have been raised by one of the leaders.
The source stated, “How do you ask someone who has paid N100m to step down? Step down for who? All the aspirants believe that they are popular and can win.
“Funnily enough, the issue of consensus was not listed in the agenda of the meeting. It was also not part of the text messages sent to us for the meeting. The meeting was majorly concerned about the utterances that are already portraying us as being divided and that the zone is behaving as if we have no leaders.
“Yet, there are concerns that the large number of aspirants could put the zone in danger if we go into the primary like that. But nobody was asked to step down for the other.”
However, the general agreement was to ensure that the region produces the next APC presidential candidate of the party.
A former National Chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande, made this known while addressing journalists at the end of a meeting with presidential aspirants from the zone on Friday night in Lagos State.
He said that, “We are united as we will ensure that the presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will come to the South-West.
“We had a fruitful discussion. We also resolved that everybody should maintain absolute decorum because we are united.”
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