The race for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress climaxed early Thursday morning with none of the five aspirants heeding entreaties by the national leadership of the party to have a consensus candidate.
Findings showed that several meetings by the leadership of the party failed to yield a consensus candidate as each aspirant expressed readiness to go the whole hog.
It was reliably gathered that an attempt by the party’s leaders to get the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, to step down was turned down.
The arrival of the aspirants- Maj. Gen. Mahuammadu Buhari, Rochas Okorocha, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Atiku Abubakar, and Sam Ndah Isaiah – elicited cheers from their delegates.
A former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu; ex-Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, governors Rotimi Amaech (Rivers), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Abiola Ajimobi(Oyo), Babatunde Fashola(Lagos), Ibikunle Amosun(Ogun), Ahmed Abdulfatah (Kwara), Rauf Aregbesola(Osun), Kashim Shettima(Borno), Umar Al-Makura, Aliu Wamako, Ibrahim Geidam were all seated at the VIP section of the stadium when the aspirants started arriving,
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal; a former Governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki; ex-Governor of Anambra State, Senator Chris Ngige; former Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Masari, and ex- Zamfara State, Sani Yerima, were part of the dignitaries in attendance.
Voting however started at about 3am on Thursday(today), hours after 7,214 delegates from the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory had been accredited at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, Lagos.
As of 4.39am, only Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi and Borno states had voted.
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