Nigeria: Buhari Our Consensus Candidate – APC Reps
APC members of the House of Representative have chosen President Buhari as their consensus candidate. This position was made known to the media after the APC caucus met at the National Assembly yesterday.
Making this announcement, Hon Sulaimon Lasun Yussuff, Deputy speaker of the House said "So, as at today, the party in principle has agreed that Buhari is going to be our candidate in 2019; I said in principle because when the date of the primary is now finally announced, we just want to go there to approve Buhari as a consensus candidate.
“As long as my colleagues and I standing before you this evening are members of APC, nobody can represent us and represent Buhari more than us; all of us are for Buhari. I as an individual started campaigning for Buhari even before we merged as far...