The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, met on Thursday with party leaders, including the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, to pick a running mate.
Twenty-four hours earlier, his opposite number in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, had begun the search for his own running mate.
Spokesman for the Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, confirmed that the APC presidential candidate would meet the APC governors.
It was also gathered that Tinubu would meet party leaders, including the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, before the end of the week.
As Tinubu began the search for his running mate, Atiku on Wednesday held a closed-door meeting with the PDP governors in Abuja with a view to picking the party’s vice presidential candidate.
At the APC presidential primary, which started on Tuesday and ended on Wednesday, Tinubu garnered 1,271 votes to clinch the party’s presidential ticket.
The Chairman of the Convention Election Management Committee, Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State, at Eagle Square, Abuja, announced that a former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, got 316 votes; the Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, 235 votes; a former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, one vote; Senator Rochas Okorocha and Pastor Tunde Bakare got zero vote each.
On Monday, Northern governors had insisted on power shift to the South despite the national chairman’s endorsement of the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, from the North-east, as the party’s consensus candidate.