Aspirants from the South East vying for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have prevailed on President Muhammadu Buhari to pick one of them as the consensus candidate of the party.
They include Dave Umahi, Rochas Okorocha, Uju. Ahanenye, Ogbonnaya Onu, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba and Ikeobasi Mokelu.
They communicated their request through a letter to President Buhari on Tuesday.
Accreditation of delegates for the special convention to elect the standard bearer of the party is ongoing at the International Conference Center, Abuja.
They said, “Your Excellency, we most humbly request that this position of our brothers from the North be deepened and made even more wholesome by further zoning this position to the South-East.
“We are all aware that no President can emerge without the support of various geopolitical zones and without the express collaboration of our brothers and sisters from other zones of Nigeria.
“With our Convention at hand, your kind directive for the deepening of unity in diversity, championed by our founding fathers solely on the basis of strengthening national unity and cohesion and for rousing victory at the 2023 elections, are stated objectives in your speeches to the Progressive governors forum, the APC aspirants dinner and the meeting of APC stakeholders.
“Furthermore, we are humbly requesting that you consider and pick your chosen candidate from the South-East aspirants in line with your stated objectives of handing over to trusted party loyalists.”
