APC Won’t Impose Candidates, Says Tinubu

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•Tinubu

Jamiu Yisa

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has assured members of the party that there would not be any imposition of candidates during the congresses of the party.

Tinubu spoke on Wednesday at the APC secretariat  on ACME Road, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, during the Stakeholders’ Forum organised by the party to sensitise members on the coming congresses.

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•Tinubu

On the APC congresses which start on Saturday, 5 April, 2014, with the ward congress, Tinubu stated that the party remains committed to democratic principles hence it will ensure that the choice of party members emerged at the end of the day.

“We will not impose any candidate on our members. It is you all here who will make your choices during the congresses and other intra-party elections,” he assured.

Tinubu also stated that where there has been an agreement on harmonising the list of executive members, the congress would adopt  affirmation format.

“However, if there is any single dissent from any quarters, then there will be election of executive members with members queing behind candidates of their choice,” he said.

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Tinubu also warned trouble makers to steer clear of the congress venues, saying that any member indicted for any violent act will be sanctioned by the party leadership.

The Stakeholders’ Forum was well attended by party leaders including the Interim National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande; the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN; the Interim State Chairman of APC, Chief Henry Oladele Ajomale; cabinet members from the state; local government chairmen and councillors.

Others are former Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives and two-time Chairman of Agege Local Government, Chief Enoch Kolapomoye Ajiboso; another former commissioner in the state, Chief Kaoli Olusanya; an ex-commissioner in the state’s Local Government Service Commission, Fouad Oki; and other prominent leaders of the party.

Also at the event, two former prominent members of the party who had defected to other parties made a grand return to APC.

They are former Deputy Governor of the state during the tenure of Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, Chief Rafiu Bakare Adeyefa Jafojo and a former House of Representatives member in the Second Republic, Chief Rasheed Shitta-Bey, known to many as Jabita.

Tinubu was so elated at their return that he gave Jafojo a new name, which is Bababowale (our elder has returned home) and Shitta-Bey became Adebowale (the crown is back home).

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