Ahead of the June 17 deadline for parties to submit candidates list to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the All Progressives Congress
(APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is set to meet APC governors and party leaders over choice of running mate.
According to The PUNCH, the candidate would meet party stakeholders, especially the governors before the end of the week.
The paper quoted the spokesman for the Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Mr Bayo Onanuga, as saying that Tinubu already had an arrangement with the APC governors that if he emerged the candidate of the party, the governors would decide the person to pick.
“The Vice-President can come from any region and religion. But the PGF is at liberty to pick. Up till now, we are all aware that Atiku has not chosen a VP. Yet he was elected before him. But in our own case, it is a party affair.
“The party leaders will look at the chances and decide how they will balance a Muslim from the South, maybe with somebody that comes from North- East, North-Central or from North-West. That is how it is done. I cannot circumvent the party. The Governor Atiku Bagudu-led PGF has the task to pick a competent deputy for him,” Onanuga was quoted to have said.
