Buhari’ll Announce Running Mate Today – APC

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, will today announce his running-mate at a press conference that is likely be at the party’s national secretariat, Abuja.

The national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun made this known yesterday in Abuja in the course of the meeting of the party’s National Working Committee where the issue of the APC presidential running mate was being discussed.

The meeting which began around 6pm had a short break during which Oyegun spoke with the journalists at the secretariat.

Responding to a question why the party is delaying announcing the name of the Buhari’s running mate, Oyegun said, “It is not delay. The candidate will speak with you people. The party has consulted with the candidate and we have reached some agreement and he will address you on it.

” The NWC meeting was the continuation of the meeting which began at the Rivers State Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro, Abuja, where a committee was set up to search for the best candidate to complement Buhari.

The seven-member committee headed by Chief Tony Momoh was set up were representatives from each zone of the country.

They are Chief Bisi Akande (South-West), Senator Chris Ngige (South-East), Senator Danjuma Goje (North-East), Chief Audu Ogbe (North-Central), Chief Sam Jaja (South-South) and Governor Yari Abubakar (North-West).

On the list are Governors Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo) and a former Lagos State Attorney- General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

Others whose names came up were former governors Dr. Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti State), former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola (Osun State), Senator Olorunnmbe Mamora and former governor Adeniyi Adebayo (Ekiti State).

The committee has submitted its report to the NWC who would recommend three names to Buhari in order of preference and it is the name that would be made known today.

“One thing I can categorically tell you now is the party would not feature a Muslim/Muslim ticket and we are open to three zones in the South, who gets the nod would be announced tomorrow,” a member of the party NWC told our correspondent.