APC denies Buhari automatic second term ticket

-APC passes votes of confidence on President Buhari and party chairman, John Oyegun.

-The party however, did not consider a motion to adopt Buhari as its 2019 presidential candidate.

APC re-affirms confidence in the leadership of President Buhari and Chief John Oyegun.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday passed a vote of confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari but fell short of adopting him as the party’s 2019 presidential candidate.

National chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun, also got an unanimous vote of confidence from participants at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the party in Abuja.

The resolutions  were confirmed by the party’s national publicity secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi.

“The motion that was put was after the Minister of Agriculture had briefed the NEC about the activities and achievements of his ministry, one of the NEC members said we should move a motion passing a vote of confidence on Mr. President.

“There was no formal motion moved on the issue of second term for Mr. President.

“Somebody in the crowd shouted that we should move a motion and we don’t even know that member.

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“But the motion that was formally moved was that NEC should pass a vote of confidence on Mr. President and that was after the brief given by the Minister of Agriculture, especially when he said that by 2018, Nigeria will have no need to import a single grain of rice.

“That is the context and I need you to understand that very well”. He said.

Also addressing news men after the NEC meeting of the party, the speaker of the House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara, says the party didn’t discuss who would be the party’s flag bearer for the 2019 presidential election as it was not part of the agenda for the meeting.

Recall the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, when he was questioned by newsmen, after his closed door meeting with the president, had also declined making comments about a second term for President Buhari.