Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has picked Expression of Interest and Nomination forms ahead of the party’s presidential convention.
Speaking yesterday at the party’s national secretariat, the presidential aspirant told the APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, to ensure a level-playing field for all aspirants to convince Nigerians that internal democracy thrived in the party.
His words: “Mr. Chairman, I need not let you know my political antecedents as far as the provision of a level-playing field for every member of this party, because that is the only thing or one of the things that will make us different from the so called ruling party.
“Anybody who believes he has a democratic right to exercise should be given that opportunity to exercise that right. It is left to the members of this party and the Nigerian public to make a decision.
“Mr. Chairman, therefore, it is my singular honour and privilege to hand over to you or your representative, two receipts: one, presidential expression of interest and the second, the presidential nomination form, all totalling N27.5 million and I believe I am now entitled to receive my forms and then go on to the next stage.”
Responding, Oyegun assured all aspirants seeking  elective offices on the party’s platform of a level-playing field, and prayed God to give Nigerians a leader that would restore the country’s pride in the comity of developed nations.

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