BUHARI SET TO CLINCH APC PRESIDENTIAL TICKET

   Strong indications have emerged that other presidential aspirants in the All Progressives Congress[APC] may be asked to step down and overwhelmingly support former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari [retd] as the party's consensus candidate for the 2015 presidential election. According to a report monitored by PUNCH newspaper, this was the position of many party stalwarts, including the party's most influential leader and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The party had initially mooted the idea going through presidential election primaries, but it is beginning to have a rethink that it would be more beneficial and rewarding to select General Buhari as a consensus candidate.
   The spokesman for the party in the South-East,Mr Osita Okechukwu,who confirmed this,said the general notion among the leaders of the party was that Buhari should be chosen as the party's consensus candidate.This option is constitutional.