 President Mohamed Buhari has called on all members of the All Progressive Congress APC to be united and also support the newly sworn in leadership of the party. The president said these are the Eagle Square, Abuja, venue of the National Convention of the Party where Senator Abdulahi Ademo emerged as the party national chairman through a consensus arrangement. Our reporter completes this story. While urging members of the party to be strong and united, President Mohamed Buhari said the convention came at a crucial time when the party was preparing for another round of general election. Also, the vice president Yemi Oshibaju lauded the founding members of the party for forming a political party that dislodged the People's Democratic Party PDP after 16 years in power. This convention is coming at a crucial time when it will prepare for another round of general election. Therefore, the need to remain strong and be united from the party to explore its abundant potentials at its disposal cannot be over-emphasized. We appreciate the right to hold difference of opinions and aspirations. However, such differences must not be the excitement of the party. Over four billion beneficiaries of our government, environment and enterprise program, the market money, trade money, farmer money, our private sector has despite constraints, continue to do wonders. Only a few days ago, Mr. President commissioned one of the largest virtualized governments in Africa and one of the largest in the world. And in a few months, the largest people like refinery in the world will become operations. Senate President Ahmed Lawal and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femig Bajabiamila lauded the president for his rule in ensuring executive legislature harmony. They also held the president's commitment to the implementation and completion of projects across the six geopolitical zones and particularly the Second Niger Bridge in the southeast. All things being said, we intend to revisit the issue of human inclusion in our first crucial stage. We must do this because ours is a part of inclusion. This is the purpose of the Progressive Movement and we unpack the faith. As we are glad that day-to-day for our growth in England and our country, representing every religion, tribe and gender, I urge you, fellow progressives, to adopt this model of nation-building economic tasks and act accordingly. The National Chairman of the APC-Kataka Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, May Malabbuni, highlighted the achievements of the Kataka Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee. Let me assure those who have been challenged in the courts that you have nothing to fear. Your defection did not portray any law. You are much successful and victorious in the spirit of courts at the end of these mitigations. The best decision to join the APC along with millions of your supporters shall never be in vain. Senator Abdul-Lahi Adamu emerged as the National Chairman of the party after he was endorsed by consensus, by delegates at the convention along with other new National Executive Council members, and this is coming about a year and nine months after the Adams O'Shamala-led National Working Committee, NWC, was sacked. Senator Adamu went into the election as a consensus candidate following the withdrawal of other aspirants from the contest. I would like to share my appreciation to the leadership and members of the APC-Kataka Extraordinary Convention Planning Council which is giving a lot of feedback by consensus. So we have allowed one of our members to be a contestant for the audience of the National Chairman of the APC. Thank you. Also elected through consensus are Ima Enuku from Enugu State as a Deputy National Chairman South, Abubakar Carey, Deputy National Chairman North, and Atumba Iola Omishori, National Secretary among others. All the consensus candidates were confirmed through voice votes at the convention. On the news now, Biodo Shomumi, a political analyst, says the APC National Convention is a preamble to how the party presidential candidate will emerge. What we've seen clearly is the direction in which the APC chose to pick its own election officials. They are quite aware of many problems the party has faced and is still facing. And realize that there's no way to all the factions in different things. They will go to an election, you know, to elect the party of operatives without having some kind of consensus candidate. If they are chosen in direct election or indirectly, that will have created no problems for the party. So I must commend the President, he's been able to steer the party clearly in this direction since the constitution, the electoral act provides for consensus candidates. So therefore they have done very well to manage their internal crisis. And that is one part of it. The other part is, if you look at the way all the candidates might come back there from clearly shows that there are some states that are probably excluded or some zones, you know, even in the south from bidding for the presidency. You cannot hold certain posts and say, for instance, chairman of the party and say you want to come from the not-again, the presidential candidate, that's not enough. I see south-west better placed to provide the next presidential candidate given the distribution of the post, which they did through consensus. So that may as well be what the President or the ruling party about, you know, prefer that, look, we rather scheme this to ensure that it's only more likely the candidates from south-west will emerge as presidential candidates. That is what has played out. It has reflected clearly in the representation in terms of those who were elected through consensual arrangement. It is clear that more likely that not south-west is better placed to provide the next presidential candidate. Your guess is as good as right on who probably would emerge. But the fact is they have used the convention to resolve, even though it's on party officials, they have also used it as an indicator, as a pointer to where the presidential candidate is likely going to emerge. Get notified about fresh news updates.