The Leader, Osinbajo Grassroots Organisation, Ekiti State, Femi Adeleye, has kicked against reported plans of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to give a waiver to former president Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2023 presidential election.
Kicking against making Jonathan a consensus candidate, he said such should not be done as there were competent and capable aspirants already.
He said if the party were to adopt consensus arrangement, then it should be in the favour of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
This is as he revealed that all the presidential aspirants on the platform of the APC were already preparing for an indirect primary.
He was quoted by Punch, “Even at that, if all the contestants agree within themselves and decide to step down for one of them, I am very comfortable that our principal, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will be the one they will step down for. I am very comfortable with that.
“If some people are rooting for Jonathan, the party must accept him first. And for him to contest, he must have spent a year in the party and our primary will hold in the one month’s time. It will be very difficult for the party to say they want to give him a waiver and pick him as consensus candidate when there are competent hands already on the ground.”