National leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party have 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 state governors within the party rejected the candidature of former Lagos governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as well as Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, a former Lagos State Attorney General under Tinubu.
SaharaReporters also learned that Mr. Tinubu did not attend the meeting after he sensed the hostility of the governors at the venue towards him, choosing to send emissaries to submit his nominees.
The newly-chosen presidential candidate of the party, Muhammadu Buhari, was in attendance but did not utter a word throughout the rowdy meeting, the sources confirmed.
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, it 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 VP.
SaharaReporters learnt that Buhari would most likely revert to Tinubu to nominate a candidate for him as a mark of respect and in order to keep his promise to obtain his input.