2015: APC presidential candidate not bound to emerge from North —Oyegun Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday said the party’s presidential candidate could emerge from the South and not solely from the North as was being speculated. He declared that President Goodluck Jonathan had “run out of steam”, asserting that “as at today, all those who have indicated interest in one form or another in the Presidency under APC, were capable of beating whoever the PDP presents, including Jonathan.” Oyegun spoke in Benin City, Edo State, when he hosted Ijaw youths under the aegis of Izon-Ibe Global Policy Network, led by Ayubalayefa Dennis, when they came to declare their support for the APC, which they described as a progressive party that would find solution to the crisis bedevilling the country. The APC National Chairman, who also disclosed that he refused to personally attend the National Honours ceremony to receive his Commander of the Niger, CON, award, due to the beating up of judges and lawyers in Ekiti by political thugs, declared that the nation was heading towards anarchy and that the APC had come to the rescue. He said: “We don’t believe in forced consensus like the PDP has done by saying that Jonathan is its sole candidate. What the PDP did was a forced consensus. I want to challenge anybody to state when it was said that our presidential candidate must come from the North. We have interested persons from the southern part of this country. It is even the PDP that has decided where its candidate must come from. It has even debarred any other person from anywhere from raising his head to say he wants to be president. “For us, it is an open field. Whoever wants to be president is free to come into the race. In fact, I wish every state can even have a presidential aspirant. The important thing is, so long as they all appreciate that at the end of the day only one person will be the candidate, they will all unite with that one person that emerges. That is what the APC represents and that is what is going to happen.” - Vanguard
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:04:47 +0000
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