Since a member of the NewPDP, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and a member of the ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have emerged as the National Chairman and Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the leadership of the party may have settled for a member of CPC bloc in the ruling party as Tinubu’s running mate for the 2023 election.
It is believed that Tinubu will, on Thursday, announce his running mate to beat the deadline given by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The party, which has settled for Muslim/Muslim ticket, has equally favoured the North East zone to produce the Vice Presidential candidate.
Freedom Online learned that a former Secretary of Buhari Support Group (BSG) and ally of President Muhammadu Buhari from the days of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Dr. Ibrahim Bello Dauda, “is highly favoured for the position”.
Dauda is in his 50s.
A management consultant from Borno State, a source declared that Dauda “has the support of party chieftains, especially the CPC bloc since the New PDP and the ACN have taken the National Chairman and Presidential ticket respectively”.
Also, the party in settling for a Muslim/Muslim ticket decided that the VP ticket should be ceded to the North-East for a political balancing.
The choice candidate is an economist and management consultant whose dedication and loyalty to the party tower higher than his contemporaries.
Dauda is said to have worked tirelessly with Buhari and APC to ensure the party took over power from the PDP in 2015 “and has remained a loyal party faithful”.
