The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has said that the party has yet to anoint any candidate for the 2015 presidential polls.
In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday, the National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, remarked that there was already a circulating rumour about the endorsement of a candidate ahead of the 2015 general election which he described as a misinformation emanating from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Fashakin, who refuted the story, said the party was in merger talks with other coalition partners, and this has so far made it impossible to have an anointed candidate.
Fashakin said: “We wish to make it abundantly clear that the party leadership has not made any decision on its preferred candidacy for the 2015 elections. It is important to use this forum to disabuse the minds of our members and teeming supporters from the noxious effect of that publication.
“We are aware that the piece of misinformation had its roots in PDP, with its large array of paid agents and proxies to castigate notable CPC members ahead of 2015 elections. It is quite asinine to insinuate that a party, in possible merger talks with other coalition partners, will have a candidate already anointed for the presidential election.”
It further declared that as a political party with deeply entrenched democratic values, it believed that its preferred candidate would emerge from a transparent electoral process, and not through selection or anointment.
The national secretary of the party, Malam Buba Galadima had refuted a publication that the CPC had replaced Gen. Muhammadu Buhari with Malam Nasir el-Rufai for the 2015 presidential race.