The APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will today release the name of his running mate, 24 hours before the deadline by INEC.
It was gathered that Tinubu had been locked in a long closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in a bid to untie the knot over the Muslim/Muslim ticket being promoted by some interested stakeholders.
Report has it that some stakeholders made a case for a younger person to deputize the former Lagos State governor as the Muslim/Muslim controversy raged,
It’s also gathered that the pendulum may swing to the Northwest in the bid to harvest maximally from the chunk of votes from the region.
Report also has it that Tinubu, who has settled for the Muslim/Muslim ticket in spite of all the antagonism, is likely to submit one of three names – Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State, Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, or Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State – to INEC as his running mate.
However, a NWC member confided in The Guardian that Tinubu has indeed settled for a dummy name called Ibrahim Masari, “but he is separate from the Katsina governor. Tinubu did that just to fulfill INEC’s requirement pending when he makes up his mind on his running mate.”
Meanwhile, the PDP will today subject the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, to screening before his formal declaration as its vice-presidential candidate.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the party said the screening, which would hold at its national secretariat in Abuja, is in line with its electoral guidelines.
The choice of Atiku’s running mate intensified when a committee headed by former National Security Adviser, Aliu Gusau, submitted the names of three persons including Wike, the governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, and Akwa Ibom State governor, Udom Emmanuel.
