A governor cannot unilaterally impose a preferred candidate on a party.

A governor cannot unilaterally impose a preferred candidate on a party. The choice must belong to the members, the stakeholders, and the full ecosystem of power brokers who make a state governable. When a man like Al-Makura, who governed Nasarawa for eight years in the face of a PDP-dominated House of Assembly and still secured two terms, says he was not consulted, that is not a minor grievance. When a former deputy governor, Silas Ali Agara, echoes the same complaint, it signals a deeper fracture.

— Babajide Kolade-Otitoju, on the announcement of a consensus candidate in Nasarawa State