The 2019 re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday suffered a setback as the National
Executive Committee, NEC, of the party, deferred an ‘informal’
motion to endorse an automatic second term ticket for President Buhari.
NEC, however, passed a
vote of confidence on the President as well as Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led National
Working Committee, NWC, saying both men had done well.
Briefing journalists at
the end of the meeting which lasted about two and half hours, Speaker of
the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, said the issue of 2019 was not on
the agenda of the NEC meeting.
“Today’s meeting was not
about 2019 elections. When we talk about 2019 in the context of the agenda you
saw, we are talking about membership registration, the drive for membership and
others.
‘’We are not talking
about elections. Even though there was a motion on the floor that called for a
vote of confidence on the President, some of us felt it was not necessary
because there is nowhere that his confidence is shaking. But the motion was
taken and passed.
“But there was a second
leg to that motion which called for the adoption of the candidature of the
President, but it was deferred for now and no decision was taken because that
is not the major reason we were here,” he said.
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