 To the all-progressive Congress has debunked news making the rounds as announced by the National Chairman of the Laya, Dua Adumu, that Hamid Lawan has been anointed the consensus candidate of the party shortly after the NWC meeting. The organizing secretary, Suleiman Ardungu, made the clarification while addressing journalists that the party's national secretariat in Abuja, he debunked the earlier claim by the National Chairman of the Laya, Dua Adumu in his briefing to journalists that Hamid Lawan had been anointed, dismissing it as mere information that was not deliberated upon by members of the NWC.