Posted on: 09:23 Thu, 24 Mar 2016



There will be no vacancy in the
Presidency in 2019, members of the
National Caucus of the All
Progressives Congress, APC,
declared on Tuesday night.

The national caucus, comprising
serving and former governors, the
National Assembly leadership, and
selected members of the national
executive of the party, at the
meeting said the endorsement of
President Muhammadu Buhari for
a second term would help to
stabilise the polity in the face of
‘the 16-year rot’ inherited from the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

One of the issues agreed on at the
meeting, according to Vanguard,
was that President Buhari should be
given opportunity to seek a second
term. Caucus members, however,
said while the idea was good, it
would be too early to kick-start a
second term campaign for the
President.

Vanguard learned that the issue
was brought up as a way of resting
restiveness among some party
leaders, who have been divided
over their various aspirations for
2019.

The positioning by different party
leaders on 2019 has been blamed
for the problems that led to the
crisis in the National Assembly and
also the inability of the party to
inaugurate its Board of Trustees,
BoT, till date.

“With Buhari contesting in 2019,
those who have been squabbling
will now have to queue up behind
him and put the interest of the
party ahead,” Vanguard quoted a
source privy to the development to
have said.