APC Convention: Tinubu Brags With 30 States

The Bola Tinubu Campaign Organisation was ebullient on the eve of the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential primary bragging of the support of 30 states.

Campaign officials speaking ahead of the primary to a select group of reporters debunked the consensus arrangement pushed by the national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu as they insisted on an election if party officials would not incline themselves to picking Tinubu as the consensus candidate.

Members of the group who spoke to the reporters included – Bayo Onanuga, Babatunde Ogala (SAN) and Kehinde Bamigbetan.

Bamigbetan, a former Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, while noting the dominance of Tinubu among the delegates, said:

“From our own projection in states where the party is in control, Tinubu will carry the day. He will do well in Kano, Borno, Niger, Kaduna, Kwara, Cross River, Ondo, Osun, Borno, Katsina, Edo, Delta, Lagos, Oyo, Gombe, and others.

The Tinubu campaign official noting the support from 30 APC states, said:

“As we speak today, over 30 states are with us. The delegates system allows us to go into alliance with various states. We know that we have 30 states, including big states of Kano, Borno, Lagos  and Osun.”

He was backed by Ogala, former National Legal Adviser of the APC who debunked claims that President Muhammadu Buhari was against Tinubu

“President is not anointing. Babachir Ali, Darazo who are insiders in the president cabinet, have said so, that we should go to the Eagle Square. Kano State had enough banners celebrating Asiwaju. We are not bothered by the fake projection by other aspirants.

“What happened at NWC meeting was that Adamu announced consensus. The NWC say no. The governors said no, and that their position on zoning remains.”

Ogala in asserting that Tinubu met the requirements earlier prescribed by Buhari said:

“Based on the criteria,  Asiwaju is the  strongest. He had said that if there must be a consensus , he is the best, and if you cannot consider him, let’s go into a contest and I will accept the position of party delegates. Let’s follow the electoral Act. Consensus is not about majority. It must be unanimous.”

Ogala, while giving the president the right to have his preference, however, said that from experience that the preference may not necessarily win as he gave allusion to how Senator Ibikunle Amosun failed to produce his successor in Ogun State.

Noting the consensus plan of Chairman Abdullahi Adamu, he added: “What Adamu has said is to say I am against the South. Northern governors are saying that power should shift to the South. It’s not a northern agenda to zone to the North.”

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