This is just as President Muhammadu Buhari directed the party leadership to explore the option of consensus among other options in the choice of its national chairman in line with the party’s tradition.
These, among others, were the outcome of the meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and 19 governors elected on the platform of the APC at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Speaking while briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting, the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, said contrary to reports in the media of division among the APC governors, agreement had been reached on zoning formula.
“Essentially, northern zone will have the positions the south have had in the last eight years. And vice versa.
“We will now go back and consult at the zonal level and look at the positions that are available and the process of the convention preparation we started in earnest.
The Kaduna State governor also said, “We are committed to ensure that the Peoples Destruction Party doesn’t come back to power.”
Eighteen of the governors that were in attendance at the meeting are those of Yobe, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Cross River, Kaduna, Lagos, Borno, Niger, Gombe, Osun, Kebbi, Anambra dep, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kano, Imo, Kogi, Ogun, and Plateau states.
The outgoing deputy governor of Anambra state was also in attendance.
It was the governors of Ondo, Katsina and Zamfara that were not present during the briefing.