There is unease in the camp of the All Progressive Congress as the party on Friday said it was yet to settle for any zone to produce the next president.
The party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who stated this while speaking with State House correspondents shortly after he presented the party’s governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji, to the President Muhammadu Buhari said such a decision was beyond the National Working Committee.
He added it was the prerogative of the entire party, which he acknowledged, was bigger than the chairman
Adamu said, “I am today privileged to be the chairman of the party. The party is greater than me. The party has not made a decision and I cannot pre-empt what the party’s decision will be.
“We also do know that there are citizens who are qualified to contest, but who are not serious contenders, who will just want to take anything cheap by the roadside and assert what they call their rights and create problems for our party.
“We’re also aware that some parties that have no chance whatsoever to win the presidential election in Nigeria will sponsor people to create problems for us and to divert our attention, whichever party is involved in that.”
The party had, earlier this year resolved to have all positioned reversed on the basis of North-South arrangement which meant that positions that were in the South would move to the North.
It was the decision that led to the adoption of a National Chairman of the party that came to the North which also means that the President of the country would come to the South.
NPO Reports that the statement by Adamu has again reopened debates over which part of the country would produce the successor to President Buhari.