2023: Jonathan may submit APC Presidential Nomination Forms today
There indications that proponents of former President Goodluck Jonathan running for next year’s general elections on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), might submit his Presidential Nomination and Expressions of Interest Forms today (Friday).
The Fulani group which, on Monday, obtained the APC’s N100 million presidential Nomination and Expression of Interest Forms for the former President said, on Thursday, that it would submit the forms today (Friday).
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The group stated this as three presidential appointees, on Thursday, challenged the directive of the President Muhammadu Buhari that all political appointees contesting the 2023 elections should resign.
Also, there were indications, on Thursday, that the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, would not heed the call for him to resign before the APC primaries scheduled for May 30.
His lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), saod that if he was going to resign, he would only do so 30 days before the 2023 elections.
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Minister of information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting, disclosed that President Buhari had directed members of his cabinet contesting parties’ primaries to resign on or before Monday.
Also recall that before the presidential directive, the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, had tendered his resignation.
Also, a few hours after the FEC meeting, the Minister of Niger Delta, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, and his counterpart for Technology and Innovation, Ogbonnaya Onu, also resigned their appointments.
On Thursday, the President extended the resignation order to other appointees, including Mr. Emefiele.
The directive, which was contained in a circular by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, was issued by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha.
