Osun 2018: APC has no plan to impose governorship candidate

AS preparations for September 22 governorship poll in Osun gather momentum, the State chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Adegboyega Famodun, on Wednesday declared that his party had no plan to impose any governorship candidate during its primary exercise.

He maintained that members of the ruling party and the general public should disregard speculations that the APC had already concluded plan to impose one gubernatorial aspirant or favour any particular person during its yet-to-be-fixed the primary election.

Famodun made these disclosures in a press statement made available to the journalists in Osogbo, Osun State capital.

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While assuring that the APC flagbearer would emerge through the due process during the primary election, the chairman said: “candidate will eventually emerge through the constitutional process that the party has agreed on”.

According to the statement, “the APC in Osun has announced that the public should completely discountenance speculations and rumours, spreading in the state that one aspirant or the other is either going to be imposed or has been particularly favoured to be the candidate of the party for the next governorship election in the state”.

“Nothing of sort has happened or is contemplated. Currently, party leaders and elders are engaging in a rigorous process of consultation about how to identify the appropriate aspirant, capable of representing the party, preserving its heritage and continuing with the development agenda and programmes of the party”, the statement concluded.

Meanwhile, APC in Osun has felicitated with its national leader and former governor of Lagos State, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu on his 66th birthday anniversary.

The party noted that “in this test period of Nigeria’s history, for a person of his age, calibre and capacity to be at the helms of affairs of the ruling party in the country is no mean achievement”.