The Caretaker Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Mr Tunde Balogun, has revealed that the founding fathers of the party reached a gentleman agreement to allot the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 election to the South-West region.
He said it would be “dishonourable” for the party to disregard the agreement now, adding that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and many other persons made the “gentleman’s agreement”.
Balogun who disclosed this to PUNCH observed that the agreement was instrumental to the party’s victory at the 2015 and 2019 elections.
His words, “In 2014, the founding fathers of APC had a gentleman’s agreement and they committed themselves to the agreement. The party was victorious because they honoured the agreement they made and everyone worked together for the party in 2015 and 2019.
“According to the 2014 agreement, the South-West should be the zone to produce the presidential candidate in 2023. Among them (those present) were President Buhari and Asiwaju Tinubu.
“What I want is for this agreement to be honoured by the founding fathers. I have no doubt in my mind that they are men of honour. An agreement was reached and that agreement produced Buhari as the President in 2015 and 2019, so to jettison the agreement now will be dishonourable.
