No automatic ticket for Buhari in 2019 – APC

-South-West regional APC leaders says any party member can become the party’s flag bearer for the 2019 presidential elections.

-The leaders also revealed Buhari is yet to inform them of his decision concerning a second term in office.

South-West leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) say the party’s 2019 presidential ticket is open to all interested members.

The leaders declared President Muhammadu Buhari has not informed them of his intention to contest the 2019 elections on the party’s platform.

Former interim national chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande who spoke on behalf of others at the end of a stakeholders’ meeting in Agodi government house, Ibadan, on Thursday evening, said anybody in the APC was free to be the party’s flag bearer in the 2019 presidential election.

Akande said: “He has not told us he is running for 2019. Anybody in our party is free to become the president of Nigeria as long as he indicates interest.”

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“We have a process through which a candidate will be selected. If he is lucky to have the ticket, then we have no option than to present him as our candidate.”

Akande also spoke as regards the party’s preparation for the Ekiti state governorship elections. He said: “We are happy that our governors and ministers are performing satisfactorily.”

“As a party, we are trying to review our position to see what we are going to do to have Ekiti back for APC in 2018.”