APC meeting to pick Buhari's Vice ends in Deadlock

National leaders of the All Progressives Congress hit a deadlock at the Rivers State government lodge in Abuja in a meeting convened to choose a Vice Presidential candidate for the 2015 presidential election.

Sources at the meeting said the deadlock arrived after governors within the party rejected the candidature of Bola Tinubu as well as Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, a former Lagos State Attorney General.

Tinubu was said to be absent at the rowdy meeting but the presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, was in attendance but did not utter a word throughout due to the tensed nature of the meeting.

After the meeting reached a deadlock, a committee of six leaders chosen from the geo-political zones was set up to resolve the logjam, but after several hours of meeting, they also failed to agree on a candidate.

Some members of the committee are Chief Bisi Akande (Southwest), Dr. Chris Ngige (Southeast), Danjuma Goje (Northeast) and Bukola Saraki (Northcentral).

The meeting then dispersed with a final directive to Buhari to go ahead and choose whomever he deems fit as his Vice Presidential candidate.

Buhari would most likely pick a VP candidate from Lagos.