The Legal Directorate of Bola Tinubu Campaign Organization has reacted to the purported adoption of the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) consensus candidate ahead of the party’s presidential primary in Abuja.
The APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, had during the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting in Abuja announced Lawan as the party’s consensus candidate for the election.
However, in a statement issued on Monday night by the Director, Legal Directorate for the Campaign Organization, Babatunde Ogala (SAN), the team described the adoption of a consensus candidate at this time as impossible.
It argued that such declaration of a consensus candidate with just 24 hours to the exercise was premature and a violation of extant provisions of the law.
The statement read: “The media is inundated with reports that the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has unilaterally announced the purported adoption of a certain…
