BEVERLY HILLS, September 13, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari has submitted his nomination forms for the 2019 Presidential election on Wednesday at the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretariat at Blantyre Street, Wuse II, Abuja.
THEWILL recalls that the forms were purchased for the president by the Nigeria Consolidation Ambassadors’ Network (NCAN) on Sept. 6. at the cost of 45 million.
The National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomole among other leaders of the party were at the Secretariat to receive the forms from President Buhari.
President Buhari while submitting the forms appealed to members of the ruling APC not to be complacent but to prepare, strategise and win 2019 elections, to prevent the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from taking Nigeria backwards.
President Buhari while submitting the forms, said; “I m here in person among friends and colleagues to put my name forward to my party, the APC, seeking nomination to contest the presidential election in 2019.
“I am taking this step with all humility, sense of responsibility and unquestionable desire to serve and protect the interest of all Nigerians.
“Let me today, appeal to party members not to be complacent but to pre,strategize and win 2019 elections.
“We must not allow those who brought the country to its kneels from 1999 to 2015 to come and take us back.”
Oshiomhole used the opportunity to present to President Buhari his new party membership card.
He also told the president that the APC under his leadership, took advantage of modern technology to come up with a new membership data base, saying that the party currently has 15.6 million registered members.
“Today to talk about the size of our party, the largest party in the world and in Africa, we need to have evidence that can be verified by a third party or by members.
“We have taken advantage of technology to produce what I believed is the best or the first in Nigeria.
“We now have as at last week when they started printing of membership register, about 15.6 million registered APC members across the country,” he said.
The APC national chairman added that the party membership data base was designed to ensure that the membership status of anyone could easily be verified at the touch of a bottom.
Oshiomhole further added that with the development, the party had credible and verifiable persons to conduct direct primaries on the basis of its membership register.
