Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola
APC picks presidential candidate in Lagos Dec 10
THE All Progressives Congress has named Lagos as the venue of its December 10 presidential primary.
Eight
thousand delegates are expected to participate in the convention,
scheduled to hold at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, Lagos.
The
APC four other presidential aspirants –former Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar, Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, Imo State Governor Rochas
Okorocha, and Leadership Newspaper publisher, Sam Nda-Isaiah – had
jointly asked for a venue outside Lagos, said to be favoured by Buhari
and a former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu.
Atiku and the
three others wrote the APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, on Nov
27, “advising” the party chairman to retain Abuja as the convention
venue.
But the APC convention committee, led by ex-Ekiti State
governor, Kayode Fayemi, ignored the subtle protest by the presidential
aspirants and on Wednesday announced the choice of Lagos as replacement
for Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
Fayemi explained that
his committee had been able to convince all the aspirants on the
suitability of the new venue while noting their concerns about
logistics.
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