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By Akinwande Soji-Ojo
President Muhammadu Buhari has said the southern region should produce the presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The president stated this at a meeting with the presidential hopefuls of the ruling party, on Saturday.
Newspeakonline gathered from a reliable source that the president said the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) caucus of the party should produce the flagbearer.
At the meeting, Buhari asked the APC governors and the presidential hopefuls to brace up for elective primaries, ruling out the possibility of a consensus candidate.
It was also gathered that some of the aspirants announced their withdrawal from the race at the meeting.
Details later. ..