- Tinubu, Adesina, Lawan, Osinbajo 21 Others Submit Form
Reports have indicated that at least twenty-five of the 29 presidential aspirants that purchased the All-Progressives Congress (APC) Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms have submitted the forms to the party.
Those who beat the deadline yesterday include Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; President African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwunmi Adesina; immediate past Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Senate President Ahmad Lawan, former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; former Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio; former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha and former Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun.
Others are Pastor Tunde Bakare; Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade; his Ebonyi State counterpart, Dave Umahi; Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi; former Minister of State, Education, Emeka Nwajiuba; former Senate President, Ken Nnamani; Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello; Jigawa State Governor, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, and former Zamfara State governor, Ahmed Yerima.
Also, on the list of presidential aspirants that filed their papers are Senator Ajayi Borroffice; the only female aspirant, Uju Kennedy Ohnenye; Pastor Nicholas Felix Nwagbo; former Speaker of Representative, Dimeji Bankole; former Minister of State, Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, former Minister of Information, Chief Ikeobasi Mokelu and Tein Jack Rich.
Consequently, those who beat the deadline are in line to face the party’s screening panel later today having submitted their completed forms at press time last night. The screening will last two days ahead of the primary slated for May 28.
However, former President Goodluck Jonathan and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele are among those who did not turn in the forms bought for them by “friends and well-wishers.”
A source at the APC national secretariat said the two men “have up till midnight to submit their forms. But as of 9 pm, we have not seen them or their agents.”
Meanwhile, a group approached a Federal High Court, Abuja praying it to bar the former president from participating as a candidate in the next presidential election, while a Delta State High Court, Kwale, restrained the board of the CBN and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from stopping Emefile from seeking an elective post.
