The PGF Chairman, Rochas Okorocha, who announced this to journalists after the forum’s meeting in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday, added that neither the forum nor the party had adopted any candidate for the 2015 presidential election.
He said the forum which comprises APC governors was in support of consensus so long as there would be no imposition of anyone on members of the party.
The governor said, “On consensus, our forum is in full support of consensus as one of the ways to produce our presidential candidate or any candidate in the party for as long as it is done with regard to respect for internal democracy. There will be no imposition of candidates in our party.
“Our party has not adopted any candidate neither has the forum but we shall encourage consensus and dialogue within the leadership of the party and aspirants to see how we can come up with a candidate but where that is not possible, like true progressives, we shall have a free and fair primary.”
Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State, who also attended the meeting, is the only progressive governor that had openly kicked against a consensus arrangement. He however made a U-turn recently.
It is widely believed that the APC leadership and many of the governors are rooting for a former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, as the party’s consensus candidate for 2015.
According to Punch, during Buhari's declaration last week, many of them attended unlike when another aspirant and a former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, joined the race.
When contacted, the Atiku Campaign Organisation said there was nothing alien about the PGF decision on consensus candidacy.
The organisation however argued that “the best form of consensus is the decision of voters in a free and open contest.”
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