2023: APC Mulls Consensus Arrangement

•Osinbajo, Tinubu to meet

There are strong indications that the All Progressives Congress may adopt consensus arrangement to pick its presidential candidate in 2023.

Top chieftains of the APC, who confided in The PUNCH on Tuesday, said stalwarts of the party had started reaching out to members nursing presidential ambition on the need to close ranks.

According to them, the party fears that “a crowded presidential primary may breed bad blood and threaten the chances of the party in 2023.”

It was gathered that the APC National leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the Vice  President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, would soon meet as part of the arrangement.

One of the sources stated, “Both Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will soon meet to  discuss issues relating to the 2023 election.”

One of the sources stated, “Leaders of the party  are working on adopting a consensus presidential candidate, which has  received presidential endorsement.”

The source added that despite the fact that the Vice-President did not visit the former Lagos State Governor when he was undergoing medical treatment in London, both of them were in touch.