2023: APC’s Plan for Open Ticket Won’t Stop Tinubu’s Ambition, Says Party Chieftain
- Plans to ensure the APC's presidential ticket is open to all aspirants is still generating reactions in the polity
- Although, many of the party chieftains have rejected the move, saying it is a plan to foist a northern candidate on the party
- A chieftain of the party from Kaduna state says the move won't affect the presidential ambition of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state, Alhaji Muhammadu Murtala has said that the party’s decision to open its 2023 presidential ticket will not affect the presidential ambition of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Tinubu, the national leader of the ruling APC is one of the leading aspirants for the party's presidential ticket ahead of the 2023 polls.
Murtala, a staunch supporter of Tinubu in the northwest region of the country, made the comment during a chat with the Daily Trust newspaper.
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He said the party leadership should abide by the zoning formula where the party presidential position is expected to be zoned to the southern part of the country in the interest of fairness and justice.
His words:
“Chief Tinubu is qualified to contest the presidency by the law and the so-called open ticket will not stop him.”
An earlier report by Daily Trust had revealed that there are already cracks in the APC over the party governors’ recent declaration that the 2023 presidential ticket is open to all members interested.
According to the report, controversy is raging over the zoning of the party’s presidential ticket and chairmanship between the north and the south ahead of the 2023 presidential contest.
Already, some APC governors and other party stalwarts from the south, were not comfortable with the development, as there are already complaints that there was no official meeting of state executives where the issue of zoning was extensively deliberated upon and decisions reached.
Legit.ng had earlier reported that an aspirant for the position of the APC national chairman, Mohammed Bello Mustapha, said the ruling party must respect the zoning formula that was agreed upon at the inception of the party to enable it to survive beyond 2023.
Mustapha, who is a lawyer, human rights, and pro-democracy advocate, said based on the accord reached when the party came on board in 2013/2014, power should rotate between the north and the south.
Meanwhile, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers has accused a former Niger state governor, Muazu Babangida Aliyu of being a mole in the Peoples Democratic Party from the APC.
Wike, who stated this on Monday, May 24, in Port Harcourt, was reacting to a recent statement credited to Aliyu, where he described the Rivers state governor as a dictator.
Source: Legit.ng
