APC Presidential aspirants advise Buhari to reject N45m form

President Muhammadu Buhari

Some Presidential aspirants in the 2019 general elections have advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to accept the purchase of N45 million Nomination and Expression of Interest forms collected on his behalf.

Addressing journalists on Monday in Lagos, the aspirants under the aegis of Coalition of 2019 All Progressives Congress Presidential Aspirants, said that accepting the offer would affect his anti-corruption stance.

The coalition made the appeal in a communique read by Chief Charles Udeogaranya, one of the aspirants after a meeting on Monday.

“We demand that President Muhammadu Buhari should reject the N45 million nomination form purchased for him by a group for some reasons.

“It fundamentally contravenes Section 90 (9) of the Electoral Law and the offer runs contrary to Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade.

“Although some aspirants can afford the exorbitant cost of the forms, such amount is clearly not affordable to many others, including President Buhari and particularly, the youth and women of our great party, APC.

“We demand that the party should, without further delay, scrap nomination fees in consistence with the law of the land,” they said.

According to them, failure to adhere to the demands will give the group no other option than to conduct our own primaries in line with extant electoral laws and the constitution.

The coalition said that if given the opportunity to lead, concerted efforts would be made to ensure policy implementation, noting that the major challenge facing the country was not lack of policies but failure to implement them.

The group said the power generation roadmap should be implemented to fight youth unemployment, poverty and economic crisis facing the nation.

They added that Nigeria would be great if credible leadership could be provided to manage the nation’s human and material resources.

The communique was signed by Dr SKC Ogbonnia, Alhaji Mumakai Unagha and Udeogaranya.