Ribadu May step down today!!

Date: 14-04-2011 2:08 pm (13 years ago) | Author: Abejide Samuel Abimbola
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Nuhu Ribadu, the presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria may step down today, according to sources close to the ACN and the Congress for Progressive Change. Leaders of the two main opposition parties met yesterday to talk about fielding a common candidate against President Goodluck Jonathan in Saturday’s presidential election. The latest round of talks, which began Monday night in Abuja, made little progress, only to flounder again. By 3am on Tuesday morning, when the parties broke up the first meeting, it looked as if an agreement was only a matter of time.

A source close to the meeting said, “There is no doubt that we shall reach a consensus. Nobody is holding any hard line. Even Ribadu has expressed his willingness to step down, but Tinubu still wants to be vice president and Buhari is not as against it as he once was.” However, by yesterday afternoon, things had taken a less amenable turn for the alliance. The problem began over which platform the alliance’s candidate should contest on. While there was no doubt that Muhammadu Buhari would fly the group’s flag, Bola Tinubu reportedly insisted that the former head of state did so under the ACN banner. Mr Buhari, however, allegedly complained that this would confuse his supporters in the north who have been primed to vote for the CPC.
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