The Allied Congress Party of
Nigeria (ACPN) says it will support President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election
bid.
The development is coming hours
after Oby Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the party, withdrew from the
race.
On Thursday, Ozioma Ubabukoh,
spokesperson of the Obiageli Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign Organisation,
said the former education minister will now devote her time in building a
coalition that would the defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Speaking with journalists, Gani
Galadima, national chairman of the party, said Ezekwesili only wanted to use the
ACPN platform to negotiate to be finance minister.
Galadima said the former minister did not show seriousness in her campaign.
“The reason for calling this
press conference is to let the world know about the presidential aspiration of
Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, which in actual fact, is not the truth. I have been put
into confidence by one of her aide named Iyinoluwa Aboyeji that she only wanted
to use the platform of the ACPN to negotiate to be Nigeria’s finance minister,”
he said.
“This she does not deem fit to
inform the party whose mandate she is holding. If you observe, Dr. Oby
Ezekwesili is the only presidential candidate who was so militant in her
campaign without any tangible thing on ground to indicate any seriousness in
the prosecution of her campaign.
“No campaign secretariat,
billboard or great commitment on ground to indicate any seriousness. It is on
this ground that the ACPN is withdrawing support for her presidential
aspiration and endorsing the second term bid of President Muhammadu Buhari to take
Nigeria to the next level.”
Galadima said she did not inform
the party of her decision to withdraw from the race.
He asked her to return to the
party all the donations “from all over the world” because the party would have
to account to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“We may take her to court. She
was just using us to play,” he said.
According to the chairman, the
party’s fee for expression of interest and nomination form is N10.5 million but
she only offered N100,000.
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