How APC moves to pick candidate through consensus

All the presidential aspirants in the All Progressives Congress (APC), except a former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju BOLA TINUBU, are open to the idea of the candidate of the party emerging through consensus.

The consensus method will entail President MUHAMMADU BUHARI, anointing one of the aspirants, while the others simply step down for him as was done during the March 26 national convention of the APC, which produced Senator ABDULLAHI ADAMU as the chairman.

In a bid to force the consensus method, the APC had introduced a controversial section in its forms for aspirants to sign that they would step down but was rejected by the aspirants. BUHARI’s spokesman, FEMI ADESINA, had said last week that the President indeed had a preferred candidate