After months of political intrigues, permutations, postponement and understanding, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun its special convention to elect its presidential candidate for the 2023 elections.
Accreditation has started in earnest at the three days event
holding at the Eagle Square , Abuja.
In the last one month, the ruling party was engulfed in the dilemma of which region should produce the cadidate, what mode of primaries to adopt and which aspirant is preference of president Muhammadu Buhari.
Going through all these and with the aspirants crisscrossing the states to woo delegates, the convention which was initially scheduled for May 29 and 30 was postponed after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) shifted the deadline for political parties to pick their candidates for the general elections from June 3 to June 9.
A total of 2,322 ad-hoc delegates drawn from the 36 states and FCT are expected to participate in the primary to elect the APC flag bearer out of the 23 aspirants jostling for the ticket.
The APC governors who are major stakeholders had agreed that the Presidency should go south but a mild controversy came up twenty four hours to the event when the national chairman of the party Abdullahi Adamu announced the president of the senate Ahmad Lawan as the consensus candidate and choice of president Muhammadu Buhari.
A swift reaction from the northern Apc governors after an emergency meeting couple with a statement from the Presidency denying endorsement of any candidate nullified the announcement.
The Aspirants are now on the field awaiting judgment from hundreds of delegates across the thirty-six state of the Federation and the FCT.
Some of the aspirants are Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, former Science and Technology Minister, Ogbonnaya Onu, former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba and former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio.
It is a matter of hours to know who becomes the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 general elections.