The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday began the search for their running mates.
Bayo Onanuga spokesman for the Tinubu Campaign Organisation, revealed this to newsmen on Wednesday.
Onanuga said that the APC presidential candidate would meet the APC governors whom he said would pick the former Lagos State governor’s running mate.
Sources say that Tinubu would meet party leaders, including the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, before the end of the week.
Just like Tinubu, Atiku on Wednesday held a closed-door meeting with the PDP governors in Abuja with a view to picking the party’s vice presidential candidate.
The APC flag bearer’s Spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga told PUNCH in an interview, that Tinubu already had an arrangement with the APC governors that if he emerged the candidate of the party, the governors would decide the person to pick.
According to him, Tinubu prefers a collective responsibility than doing it on his own.
Onanuga stated that, “The Vice-President can come from any region and religion. But the PGF is at liberty to pick. Up till now, we are all aware that Atiku has not chosen a VP. Yet, he was elected before him. But in our own case, it is a party affair.
“The party leaders will look at the chances and decide how they will balance a Muslim from the South, maybe with somebody that comes from North- East, North-Central or from North-West. That is how it is done. I cannot circumvent the party. The Governor Atiku Bagudu-led PGF has the task to pick a competent deputy for him.”