The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday said there it has no immediate plan to field former President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate in the 2023 general election.

Chairman of the APC Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni dismissed reports that some northern APC governors were wooing the former president.

He told the BBC Hausa Service: “Those peddling such information are afraid. But for now, there is nothing in the APC which has anything to do with the aspiration for 2023.

“Even if someone wants to base assumption on our recent visit to him during his birthday, we were there because of his capacity as a former President of Nigeria.

“We must give credit to former President Jonathan on the issue of peace – how he accepted defeat in 2015 and resigned to fate.

“That has qualified him to be a statesman and he is now among our fathers.”

“Our visit to Jonathan was pronounced because of his status as a former President. That could be why some may think there was something beneath.

“There are numerous such visits to leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), APC. Why are others not being mentioned?”