Presidential Ticket: Atiku, camp jittery as APC, Tinubu plan to dump him for Buhari

L-R: Buhari and Atiku

Barring any changes, the All Progressives Congress, APC is set to adopt former Head of State, Gen. Mohammed Buhari (retd) as its consensus candidate for the 2015 presidential election.

Saturday Vanguard’s investigation, yesterday, revealed that the issue featured prominently at the October 17, 2014 National Executive Committee, NEC meeting of the party.

It was gathered that the party’s national leader and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the course of the meeting, openly declared his support for Buhari as against the expectation of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, another presidential aspirant who was present at the meeting.

Photo News: Imo 2015: Deputy Speaker, Emeka Ihedioha picks Nomination Form

L - R, Deputy Speaker, House of Reps. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha collecting his nomination form for the Imo State PDP Governorship primary from  National Organizing Secretary, PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapher at the Party Headquarters, Wadata House Abuja...recenly.

2015: Buhari dares Jonathan, Atiku, picks APC presidential form, pays N27.5m

 

Buhari

A former military Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday became the second presidential aspirant to pick the expression of interest and nomination forms of the All Progressives Congress.

Buhari, who paid the required N27.5m in Abuja was handed the forms by the party’s national chairman, John Oyegun.

2015: Jonathan takes on co-contestants, calls them serial losers

Jonathan

The Presidency on Wednesday gave an indication that President Goodluck Jonathan will seek re-election during the 2015 presidential election, saying he will contest against those it described as “serial failures.”

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, disclosed this in an interview with State House correspondents.

Okupe was reacting to an online report which alleged that Jonathan is not interested in seeking re-election in 2015 but is working towards a two-year tenure elongation for himself and other public office holders across the country.