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EKO HOT BLOG reports that President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to meet ruling All Progressives Congress presidential aspirants latest Sunday.
The president was said to be planning a trip to Ghana today (Saturday), without resolving the consensus crisis rocking the party.
A top government official was quoted as saying that the President would return to the country later in the day.
Nevertheless, the President, who returned from Spain on Friday afternoon, is expected to meet with the aspirants on Saturday night or Sunday.
“The President is expected to travel to Ghana tomorrow (today). After that, he is expected to meet with the aspirants and thereafter reveal his preferred candidate for the party’s ticket,” the source added.
Buhari had met with the governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday ahead of the party’s convention.
The president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made the outcome of the meeting known in a statement titled, ‘We must show positive qualities of APC at our convention, President Buhari charges governors’.
During the meeting held at State House, Abuja, Buhari told the governors that decisions that would enable the party to retain power at the centre should be taken.
The meeting came amid speculations that the president may anoint an aspirant before the convention.
He also charged the governors to ensure that the forthcoming convention to pick a presidential candidate reflects all the values and virtues of the party.
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Buhari assured the governors that the consultation process will continue, to ensure that all aspirants and stakeholders would be brought on board right through to the convention, stressing that it would also ensure that any anxiety occasioned by different factors are effectively brought under control, “and that our party emerges stronger.”
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