Former President Goodluck Jonathan is said to have been chosen as the All Progressives Congress (APC) consensus candidate ahead of the party’s presidential primary poll.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the ruling party allowed the former President a permission to run in the next Presidential primaries scheduled for this week.
After meeting with the APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, at the former President’s mansion in Abuja two weeks ago, he was granted the waiver.
Jonathan was also given permission to run for president in 2023 by the Federal High Court in Yenagoa.
The Supreme Court held that no retroactive statute could prevent him from running for president again.
Former President Jonathan has apparently been chosen as the APC consensus candidate after meeting with Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s powerful nephew.
The cabal, power brokers in the Buhari administration, and some prominent APC officials are said to have chosen the former President as the governing party’s presidential flagbearer for 2023.
According to reports, Daura and other members of the cabal have contacted other APC presidential candidates, urging them to drop out and back Jonathan as the consensus candidate.
Following Jonathan’s adoption as the only presidential candidate, the cabals have told other hopefuls that no primary poll will be held next week.
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However, some of the aspirants have vowed to test their popularity at the primary election regardless of the decision of the cabal, a source told the platform.
The source said the move has caused division among party leaders, governors and other stakeholders who felt the former President did not deserve the ticket.
“There is internal war in our party, APC as all aspirants got a notification that Goodluck Jonathan is Buhari cabal’s adopted candidate, imagine the insult.
“All the aspirants have been notified not to expect party primary next week Friday as the cabal around Buhari have chosen Jonathan as the consensus candidate of the party,” the source said.
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