Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have met behind closed doors in Abuja.
According to The Cable, the meeting held hours after they met with President Muhammadu Buhari.
Although details of the meeting, which held at the Kebbi governor’s lodge, were still sketchy, but reports say it may not be unconnected with an earlier meeting by President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC governors over choice of the party’s standard bearer ahead of the 2023 election.
The report said the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, confirmed the meeting when he appeared as a guest on Channels Television programme.
Sule said the party’s choice of candidate would be someone who is acceptable to all Nigerians.
He said the president and the party would consult widely with stakeholders on the matter before the primary.
“The president clearly mentioned that our candidate who will be selected must be someone acceptable to Nigerians — someone who understands what APC is all about and after.
“He mentioned clearly that it is somebody that would go to all parts of the country and be accepted. We must bring someone who can win the election and sustain what the APC has done. That is the exact definition of what the president said.
“If you are looking for a name, the president didn’t mention a name, and neither did anybody mention a name.
“He told us about his dreams of who will be president. The president said: ‘my dream of who will be the next president is this and I’m going to consult with other stakeholders, not just the governors, the aspirants themselves, and at the end of the day, we must remain a united party’. I think that is just the dream of the president.”
