Atiku Against Unopposed Ticket For Buhari

Former vice chairman Atiku Abubakar has aforementioned the All Progressives Congress as presently established , cannot do while not holding an elective party primary to settle on its flag bearer for the 2015 presidential election.

Atiku aforementioned this in an

interview with journalists, in Abuja, on Monday. He was reacting to the clamor by the information. Muhammadu Buhari campaign team for an automatic price ticket for the retired general.

In a veiled relevancy agitations by Buhari’s supporters for an automatic price ticket, Atiku aforementioned such agitations were borne out of a worry of an elective contest.

According to him, such a campaign also can be a carryover of the political background of these seeking for such concessions that is alien to the APC because it is nowadays.

He said, “There is nothing like automatic ticket and people those who area unit posing for automatic ticket may need been returning from a political background that failed to grasp contest before.

“You grasp the APC is an merger of variety of political parties that came along and integrated their identities however the APC as presently established cannot escape an elective mode of primaries.

“There is not any sectionalisation, on what basis area unit you reaching to say it's automatic? There’s no allocation as they are doing within the Peoples Democratic Party, there's nothing like that therefore, on what basis?”

He implored politicians to not be fearful of a political contest as a result of it helps to strengthen democracy contention that ought to be lose during a truthful contest, he would support his party to win the elections.

In response, the South-East Zonal content Secretary of the party United Nations agency belongs to Buhari’s camp, aforementioned neither the final nor his supporters were frightened of a contest.

He, however, aforementioned the long run interest of the party was of utmost importance as a result of there was very little or no time left for the party to trot out the rancor that was probably to follow.

Okechukwu aforementioned “It isn't a matter of being frightened of a contest. Why we have a tendency to area unit posing for an automatic price ticket for Buhari is on several grounds. We’ve seen that the affiliation between him, the center category and also the plenty of this country is unequaled.

“He includes a bond with the plenty of this country and also the class which reasonably bond generated twelve million votes in 2011 during a small CPC, satiny low CPC, currently we've a broader party.

“We have to be compelled to compliment and supplement that twelve million votes rather than running the danger of the rancor, the bitterness of direct or indirect primaries. We’ve to avoid that rancor.”