At least 8,000 delegates are expected to choose the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at its national convention commencing tomorrow in Lagos, party spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said yesterday.
Mohammed vowed that given the determination of the party to change the course of the country, the party would ensure that the “process of effecting that change has commenced with the effective mobilisation of Nigerians to demand the change in the 2015 general elections.”
Five presidential aspirants, namely: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), Sam Nda-Isaiah, Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso and Governor Rochas Okorocha are scheduled to vie for the presidential ticket of the party.
Mohammed, at the briefing, defended the change of venue from Abuja to Lagos. According to him, central to the decision was neutrality, accommodation availability and security concerns.
He saidJos, Plateau State, which was central enough was not chosen because of security concerns, adding that the party took a deliberate decision to ensure that the states of the aspirants contending were not chosen.
