The crises that is rocking the newly registered All progressive Congress (APC) has taken a new dimension, as the Party's bigwigs are claiming that Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari must not contest for the 2015 presidential election, in line with the gentleman agreement they had with him and Bola Tinubu.
A Senator, on the platform of APC, said that "the new party was taken aback by the former Congress for Progressive Change, CPC’s presidential candidate’s decision to jettison a gentleman agreement and run in 2015".
The lawmaker, who is a ranking officer in the National Assembly, said that the former leader’s ambition was at variance with an earlier understanding that neither Buhari nor Asiwaju Tinubu, who are regarded as the principal promoters of APC, would run for any elective office in order to give the new party the ‘semblance of a new beginning.’
The lawmaker said: “Our earlier thinking was that the two leaders (Buhari and Tinubu) should provide leadership for the new party and groom an acceptable candidate that will beat Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Goodluck Jonathan, because from all indications, PDP will present him.
“By our calculations, a younger and vibrant politician should run as our candidate so as to give PDP a good fight.
“But from the way things are, we are stuck between telling Buhari, outright, not to run and allowing him to continue with some ripple effects coming our way later.”
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