APC denies buhari automatic second term ticket

APC denies Buhari automatic
second term ticket
Published 1 day agoon
November 1, 2017
By Oladipo Abiola 
-APC passes votes of confidence
on President Buhari and party
chairman, John Oyegun.
-The party however, did not
consider a motion to adopt
Buhari as its 2019 presidential
candidate.
APC re-affirms confidence in the
leadership of President Buhari
and Chief John Oyegun.
The All Progressives Congress
(APC) on Tuesday passed a vote
of confidence on President
Muhammadu Buhari but fell short
of adopting him as the party’s
2019 presidential candidate.
National chairman of the party,
Chief John Oyegun, also got an
unanimous vote of confidence
from participants at the National
Executive Council (NEC) meeting
of the party in Abuja.
The resolutions were confirmed
by the party’s national publicity
secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi.
“The motion that was put was
after the Minister of Agriculture
had briefed the NEC about the
activities and achievements of his
ministry, one of the NEC members
said we should move a motion
passing a vote of confidence on
Mr. President.
“There was no formal motion
moved on the issue of second
term for Mr. President.
“Somebody in the crowd
shouted that we should move a
motion and we don’t even know
that member.
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“But the motion that was
formally moved was that NEC
should pass a vote of confidence
on Mr. President and that was
after the brief given by the
Minister of Agriculture, especially
when he said that by 2018,
Nigeria will have no need to
import a single grain of rice.
“That is the context and I need
you to understand that very
well”. He said.
Also addressing news men after
the NEC meeting of the party, the
speaker of the House of
Representative, Yakubu Dogara,
says the party didn’t discuss who
would be the party’s flag bearer
for the 2019 presidential election
as it was not part of the agenda
for the meeting.
Recall the party’s national leader,
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
when he was questioned by
newsmen, after his closed door
meeting with the president, had
also declined making comments
about a second term for
President Buhari.