The national leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former governor of Osun state, Bisi Akande, have met with all the 33 aspirants contesting the party ticket in Ekiti state as part of efforts to produce a consensus candidate. The party’s governorship primary was aborted last Saturday due to violence among the party delegates and agents, which forced the committee to postpone the election.
There were accusations and counter-accusations between Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, Babafemi Ojodu and Bimbo Daramola, over the crisis. The meeting, which held last night at the Lagos state lodge in Abuja, also had former governor of Ekiti, Niyi Adebayo, former governor of Ogun state, Segun Oshoba and many other APC South-west leaders in attendance.
Speaking with newsmen after a closed door meeting which lasted three hours, former governor of Osun state, Chief Bisi Akande, said the resolution of the closed door meeting with all the aspirants would be communicated to the party. Akande said: “We took a decision on what will be the best advantage to our party and the country. Consensus is already written in our constitution and it is an option.
Also primary election is already in our constitution. But what we want is the general happiness of the leaders of the party, the contestants and our party.” On whether there would be a fresh primary election, he said “we are going to talk to the party about what the aspirants said and what we all thought was best and we know that the party will take the right decision.”
