President Muhammadu Buhari has denied the claim by the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu that Senate President Ahmed Lawan is the consensus candidate of the party in the coming election.
This is coming as the president met with some governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the North at the Presidential Villa Abuja.
Sources at the meeting stated that the President distanced himself from the alleged endorsement of Lawan by the APC’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
The President was reported to have told the governors that consultations should be broadened to ensure that a candidate with popular appeal emerges as the consensus candidate before the commencement of the Convention on Tuesday.