 Okay, we now go back to the story on APC Convention. The Eagle Square is a beehive of activities that's because preparations remain in top gear to ensure the APC put everything in place for a successful outing at their convention tomorrow. Party delegates, journalists and food vendors are all there as well. They are observing work in progress. Members of the Convention, organizing committee are all on the ground to supervise the work as it progresses. We brought you a report earlier and now we have joining us our guest on the prime time news tonight to take a look at issues around the convention is Victor Okai. Mr Victor, good evening. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Brilliant. It's been a long journey to the APC Convention. Now they've resorted to consensus, candidacy for all positions. What's your opinion? Well, a few things. First of all, you know, people are predicting that there will be an inclusion because it is said that the party is part of a stringent federal witness. There are different factions within the party, but even more than that is the fact that the issue of consensus can be expected. I mean, that is partly the truth because if we decide to go through an election, then obviously they might have problems. Some analysts are predicting that it might just mark probably the beginning of the end of what is today one sitting in one united party. And don't forget this. The stakes are very high in this particular election. And what are the stakes? First of all, the issue of the primaries are coming up. It's assumed that wherever the leaders are that emerge from the party will go a very long way in referencing who emerges as the candidate of the party. So the stakes are very high. Consensus will seem like a way out, but I can assure you that it doesn't favor some parties. If it's manipulated here, some parties might not be the beginning of the whole drama in the North Star and weeks coming ahead. Okay. It's my favorite some parties, Milan's favorite some parties within the same party. So that leads me to the next question. Are you saying that they are not well fortified for victory in 2023? To be fortified for victory, you need a united front. It means that all hands must be on deck. No matter how strong you are, no matter how powerful you are, if your house is divided against itself, then obviously way into battle, you just will see your time on its own. Okay. Now the president had a meeting with all the 22 governors, apart from their decision to opt for consensus candidacy. How else do you see the meeting impacting on the outing tomorrow? Well, the president still excites a lot of you, so he knew the party and the party members hope still that he excites the leader and he has a lot of movement left. I mean, so what they're looking at right now is they cannot settle the meeting. They should ask him, I guess, who he said prefer candidacy so that they can go along with it. It's more like say, okay, the casting could do not agree. Then perhaps you can tell us who you prefer and then we'll go with it. But it's part of all that however it goes, I can assure you that not everyone comes smiling at the end of the day. Okay. Could you do a quick comparison of the current APC and the APC of 2015 and 2019? Has anything changed? What are our observations? Oh, by the Lord has changed. In 2015, and by the Lord in 2019, there was the unity of what some have said has changed, but for this who are united in one singular purpose, which was to route the incumbent party at the time and the incumbent president who got Jonathan. I mean, well, united in that. And so it's like the providence is the enemy of my enemies, my friends. So it doesn't matter whether you don't adhere to other things, but as long as you are united on that, then you, I mean, coming very strongly together as one. That worked very much in 2015. And they came together and they were able to take over power. Power share was not exactly to everyone's satisfaction, but they learned to deal with it. And in 2019, they could not afford to use the, the, the lead they had because they had a leader who prevent that extent was able to guarantee a new number of votes. Google was here pretty much there at the time, but I can't say the same for this time. And don't forget there's no incumbent this time around. So it's more like, you know, the game is open right now and it can be anyone's payment. Of course, you find candidates, um, like, for instance, when it says in the title, entitlement, like, probably they have the right to have lots of wire, and so it should be a trend. And of course, there are these who feel, you feel that, okay, it's a trend in the South East, you know, all those who should proceed to them. And they are those of course who feel, you know, I mean, it can go anywhere. This is something that is open. Anyone can point out. So you find all of this interest. So all of these are the things that I should be, um, you know, the dynamics of fuzzy convention. And ultimately, um, I'm subsequently the primary and ultimately the first public general elections. Thank you very much. Earlier, you mentioned an implosion, a possible implosion tomorrow. We won't talk about that tonight. I will leave that for another time when you tell us about that implosion. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you. That was Victor Hyde joining us on our prime time news. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.