All Progressives Congress (APC) has been advised to narrow its search for Bola Tinubu’s running mate to the North Central.
A chieftain of the party in Niger State, Nma Kolo said the ticket should be micro-zoned to Niger State with Governor Abubakar Sani Bello as the vice presidential candidate.
Kolo who is the Special Adviser to Bello on Political Matters, hinged the choice of principal on the critical roles the governor has been playing as a “stabilising force” during the party’s dire moments.
Bello is the Chairman of the North Central States Governor’s Forum.
He was also a member of the defunct APC’s caretaker committee which paved the way for the party’s national convention, where a new leadership was put in place.
He had also served as acting National Chairman of the caretaker committee, when the substantive chairman and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni went on medical vacation earlier in the year.
Kolo said having successfully represented the party in key assignments as chairman of various committees and navigated it through trouble times as acting caretaker committee chairman, Bello is equipped enough to serve as the country’s vice president in the next dispensation.
He also said the fact that Niger had successfully delivered it’s votes for the APC in two major elections since 2015, further positioned it as the key state to produce the vice presidential candidate of the party.
