Fela Durotoye Emerges as the PACT's Consensus Presidential Candidate for the 2019 General Elections

Presidential Aspirants Coming Together (PACT) as at yesterday evening, had 18 presidential aspirants scheduled under its body to participate in a selection process today for a concensus candidate for the presidential elections come 2019.
The criteria for the selection of the PACT’s consensus presidential aspirant as agreed was based on all the presidential aspirants answering the tough question, "If not me, then who?" In other words, a presidential aspirant had no liberty to vote for himself and whoever emerged with the highest votes became PACT’s concensus presidential aspirant.
During the PACT conference held earlier in Abuja, only 13 of the presidential aspirants were in attendance. Out of these, two candidates opted out just before the voting process began leaving the number to 11 candidates who took part in the first round of voting.
Following the first round of voting, three candidates emerged top as a result of a tie in the first round of the selection process. These were, Fela Durotoye, Kingsley Moghalu and Mathias Baba Tsado with two votes respectively while the rest shared one vote each and two aspirants had no votes at all.
Just before beginning the second round of the selection process, another member of the PACT respectfully opted out leaving the PACT to 10 candidates who now had the responsibility of deciding who their consensus candidate will be.
In due process, the top three candidates were asked to step outside while the remaining seven candidates voted a consensus for PACT's presidential aspirant.
At the end of the second round of voting, Fela Durotoye emerged as PACT’s consensus presidential aspirant with four votes while Kingsley Moghalu followed closely with three votes as announced by Prof. (Mrs.) Oby Ekwesili who was invited to monitor the transparency of the process.
Fela Durotoye, in accepting the nomination as the PACT’s consensus presidential candidate thanked all the presidential aspirants who formed PACT from inception and assured Nigerians of his commitment and humbly stated that he cannot claim to have all the answers but that together it is possible to deliver a new Nigeria.
In his words, as seen on on his official social media page, “I take this nomination as a Consensus Candidate with great sense of responsibility; knowing that I and our generation have been entrusted with a mandate to show Nigerians the kind of leadership they truly desire and deserve and to inspire the hope of a better future; a New Nigeria.
The 2019 elections will be a referendum between our past and our future; between the same old change and a New hope, the old and the young, politics and good governance, joblessness and jobs, politicians and nation builders and between experience and expertise.
We don’t expect it to be easy. We will be held to higher standards than the establishment, our methods and conduct scrutinized more closely to determine if we are the same old wine, repackaged in new wine skins.
We assure you that we are nothing like what our nation has experienced over the last 58 years, but we will earn your trust, and eventually, your votes. I am not arrogant to claim that i have all the answers, but I am humble enough to say that I will listen to all your questions."
Congratulations to our PACT's Presidential candidate elect and congratulations to all presidential aspirants who came together to make this a reality and to all Nigerians who earnestly desire the New Nigeria. This win is for all of us.
Fela Durotoye will be running for the Office of the President under the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) Party.
