Lagosians have been assured that the All Progressives Congress, APC, will only present popular and acceptable candidates for all elective positions, particularly the party’s governorship slot in the 2015 general elections.

The assurance was given at a media interaction in Lagos, yesterday,  by the Senate Minority Whip and one of the leaders of the party, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon, who is also vying for the governorship seat in the race to succeed Governor BabatundeFashola in 2015.
GOS, as he is popularly called in political circles in Lagos, currently represents Lagos West at the red chamber of the National Assembly.

He noted that the leadership of the party had assured of free and fair primaries in which all party members would participate to enable popular and acceptable candidates to emerge.
Solomon has been a key player in Lagos politics since the inception of current democratic dispensation.

Respected as a grassroots politician and mass mobiliser, he was a Chairman of Mushin Local Government Area before being elected a member of the House of Representatives after which he has been twice elected a Senator to represent Lagos West in the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
According to him, though the national leadership of the party had last week muted the idea of a modified direct primaries, “but without preempting them, we are going to have all inclusive primaries where all stakeholders of the party would participate.

He said: “The statement credited to our Publicity Secretary which says we are going to have modified direct primaries is strange to me. I’ve heard direct and indirect primaries before. He said there won’t be delegates. But I want to say that we should wait for the party so that we can know how we are going to have the modified direct primaries.”