Nigeria: APC Presidential Ticket - Buhari, Kwankwaso, Others Meet On Emergence of Northern Candidate

26 August 2014

As the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) works out the guidelines for its presidential primary election slated for later in the year, leaders of the party from the North-west geopolitical zone have started strategising to ensure that the presidential ticket of the party is clinched by a candidate from the north.

In this regard, THISDAY gathered that former military Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), Governors Aliyu Magatakarda Wammako of Sokoto State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State and Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara, held a closed-door meeting on Sunday in Kaduna to ensure that a northerner clinches the APC presidential ticket.

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