Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, has insisted that they have not taken a decision on which region of the country will get its 2023 presidential ticket.
Adamu said the decision would be taken at a later date by the entire APC.
He spoke on a day associates of the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, picked up his expression of interest and nomination forms for him.
The day also saw the immediate past governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, buy his nomination form and a former senate president, Chief Ken Nnamani, declared his interest in the race.
Speculations about a planned ‘declaration’ for presidency by a former national chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole sparked confusion in the polity.
Adamu, during a visit to the Presidential Villa, Abuja to present the APC governorship candidate in the forthcoming election in Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji, said he could not preempt the party on the zoning issue.
“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 preempt what the party decision will be,” he told State House Correspondents in contradiction of a statement by Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai just before the APC national convention last month.
El-Rufai had said back then that “our expectation is that our presidential candidate will come from somewhere in the south.”
He added: “It is up to the southern caucus of the APC to now propose to us an acceptable candidate.”
Adamu declined to respond to another question from reporters yesterday on when ministers who intend to contest in the election would resign ahead of the primaries.
”Thank you very much for your question. Our luck is that I happen to be a lawyer and the issue you are raising is in court right now. So, it will be sub judice for me to discuss it at all,” he said.
