APC eyes Tambuwal for presidency •As pressure mounts on Buhari

AHEAD of the 2015 elections, and in the bid to field a credible candidate that could  deliver the presidency for the new alliance, All Progressive Congress (APC), some leaders of the new party were said to have zeroed in on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as a potential presidential candidate. for the party.

Sources close to the Joint Consultative meeting of the party held in Abuja told the Sunday Tribune that the leaders agreed on Tambuwal, who they hoped to be persuaded to leave the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2015 elections.

Sources said that the choice of Tambuwal was agreed on after the younger elements within the party canvassed for a paradigm shift, by arguing that both former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari and the leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, Senator Bola Tinubu, be prevailed upon to withdraw from the 2015 race and leave the turf for a younger but acceptable candidate.

It was learnt that leaders of the opposition see Tambuwal as a man who had risen above partisanship by giving equal leverage to the opposition leadership in the House and one who could draw more PDP members to the APC should he agree to the proposal.

- Tribune