APC convention: What will happen if consensus arrangement fails – Gov Sule

 Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will explore other options if the consensus arrangement does not work out at its convention slated for Saturday.

Addressing newsmen at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja, on Friday, Sule said at the moment, consensus is the first option.

He said the “unity list”, indicating consensus across the six geopolitical zones in the country would be ready between Friday and Saturday.

“One thing I can tell you clearly, the leadership of this party, the stakeholders of this party, the governors are united.

“Our first choice is always consensus. And we are still on that first choice. However, democracy demands, even our (APC) Constitution demands and the constitution of Nigeria demands that if that doesn’t work, we will go ahead and look at the other options. But right now, that remains our option.

“On the issue of political appointees of Mr. President, Some of them are actually statutory delegates. So if you have a former president as a political appointee, if you have a former senator as a political appointee, these are already automatic delegates. So let’s not confuse the two, because being an appointee doesn’t necessarily take you out of being a delegate, because our delegates are classified, clearly.

“Former president of our party, former elected this, elected that, party officials and the rest of that. I don’t think anybody who holds any political party office is actually a political appointee of the President, or the governors and the rest of that.

“We have had in the various regions, you know, that the unity list will be ready today, you know, it will actually be submitted and somebody was asking whether it is for real. Of course, yes, we are going to have a unity list. If you are talking of consensus, you must have a unity list, because that is the whole essence of consensus.

“You know, if you are having consensus, you are going to have people who have agreed; aspirants who have agreed, stakeholders who have agreed, and also the constituency that have agreed, and in that case, that name automatically will be adopted. And that’s just the meaning of the unity list. That is how the unity list is going to be put together,” the governor said.

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