The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate for the 2023 election is projected to emerge from the country’s southern area, according to Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai.
El-Rufai said that the party’s national chairmanship will be held by a Nigerian from the north.
During an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, he remarked, “Our assumption is that our presidential candidate would emerge from someplace in the south.”
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He stated that it would now be up to the ruling party’s southern caucus to pick which portion of the state the candidate would come from.
“Now it’s up to the APC’s southern caucus to offer a suitable candidate to us,” he stated.
“I believe Nigerians want a lot more from us than we have given them, but if they think about it and compare us to the other party, we are still the superior choice.”
“I believe the APC would win the presidential election as well as the majority of gubernatorial elections in 2023,” he said.
When asked if he had any regrets about becoming the governor of Kaduna State after President Muhammadu Buhari persuaded him to do so, El-Rufai said, “I have no regrets whatsoever.” I believe we have changed the state in many ways and made progress in many areas. I’ve no regrets. I’ve paid a personal price for my actions.
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“I mean, whatever you do that raises the life of humanity, it feels like something that brings back positive feedback. I’m quite satisfied and I feel that we’ve done a decent job in Kaduna, so I’ve no regrets whatsoever.
“And I ask Nigerians to pray for all of us for Almighty God to choose a successor in Kaduna that would be even better than I tried to do.”
El-Rufai was asked about the rumours that he had already anointed his very good friend to take over from him when he leaves office in 2023, the Governor said, “I’ve not. I’ve not anointed anybody. Stories go round.
“There are some that say I’ve anointed my deputy governor and there are some that say I’ve anointed my Commissioner for Finance and there are some that say I’ve anointed my Commissioner of budget and planning, there are all kinds of stories arounds, but…I don’t want to anoint anyone.
“I think the leadership…our first eleven as I called it, the core leadership of Kaduna State would sit and debate this and see whether we can come up with one person we think is a worthy successor and what that person would do to carry the rest of the team together.
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“We have our core team. We’ve started meeting regularly and even our senators join from Kaduna. We discuss this regularly and at some point, we’re going to make that decision, but we’ve not anointed anyone.
“If I tell you I don’t have preferences I would be lying. I do have preferences but because I’m human, even though I have preferences, I’m still praying that God chooses the right person for Kaduna State.
“Because for me, Kaduna is more important than anything, including myself, friendship and any preferences I may have and I’m human only God knows the best person to succeed me. I’m only human.
“My preference is in our core team, that is the first eleven. I said core team because these are the guys that worked with me since 2014 to organise our party, organised our campaign and we won and got elected.
“So, they know all the policies we formulated and implemented. So, they’ll not come and have about-turn changing direction.
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“This is why I said our core team. Some are in the cabinet and some are in the National Assembly, but we have our core team and we’ll keep discussing. The reason I want someone from our team to succeed us is because I want continuity.”
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