APC Ticket: Tinubu, Osinbajo Adamant As S/west Elders Intensify Consensus Effort

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APC Ticket: Tinubu, Osinbajo Adamant As S/west Elders Intensify Consensus Effort

All efforts by the elders of the South-West zone to come up with a consensus candidate ahead of the Tuesday presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) seem to have hit the rock as the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo are said to be adamant.

The Southwest leaders who met with the presidential aspirants from the zone on Saturday night at the Abuja home of a former governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba continued with their moves on Sunday to present a common front ahead of the presidential primary election.

The geo-political zone leaders fronting the consensus move include Osoba and former APC Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande with governors and elders of the region, but the meeting ended without them reaching a consensus.

Multiple sources told our correspondents that while the meeting was ongoing yesterday, the duo of Osinbajo and Tinubu were not ready to shift grounds as they have continued to intensify their consultations and engagements with delegates.

The aspirants from the South West region include Osinbajo, Tinubu, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, and Ogun State Governor, Chief Dapo Abiodun, Senator Robert Ajayi Boroffice and Pastor Tunde Bakare.

Sources said while some of the aspirants were ready to shift grounds, Osinbajo and Asiwaju are not.

“We expect both Asiwaju and VP to slug it out as efforts to persuade one of them to step down have not yielded results as of now,” a source who does not want to be named, hinted.

The duo of Akande and Osoba, who have been making efforts to arrive at a consensus among aspirants from the South West, have rejected several efforts to comment on the move.