{"id":1009,"date":"2018-09-11T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:51:20","slug":"apc-gives-condition-for-emergence-of-consensus-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"APC gives condition for emergence of consensus candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress has given conditions for the emergence of consensus candidates for all elective positions.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement signed by the acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, in Abuja, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read \u201cThe attention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been drawn to announcements of consensus candidates for elective positions in some states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is therefore pertinent to make some clarifications to enlighten Party faithful on the procedure for nominating candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile consensus is provided for by the Party\u2019s Constitution, the option is conditional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsensus does not foreclose Direct or Indirect Primaries for all elective positions as contained in the resolution of the 6th meeting of the Party\u2019s National Executive Committee (NEC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, consensus will apply when no other aspirant signify interest (i.e. through purchase of nomination forms) for the position in question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Ogun, Zamfara and Yobe state chapters of the APC earlier announced the emergence of \u201cconsensus\u201d candidates for the governorship position amidst protests from other aspirants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress has given conditions for the emergence of consensus candidates for all elective positions. This was contained in a statement signed by the acting National Publicity Secretary &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}