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EKO HOT BLOG gathered that APC top shots are prevailing on some presidential aspirants to step down to allow room for consensus, according to sources.
A reliable source at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja who confirmed the development to the Press yesterday forwarded a copy of the party’s “Form 18” to be filled by aspirants withdrawing from the race as evidence.
It was hinted that the party instructed the aspirants to fill the Form 18 and submit same to the APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, together with their nomination forms.
This Media reliably gathered that the party instructed it must be done in the presence of a commissioner for oaths.
The source said the signing of the withdrawal letter in the presence of a commissioner for oaths and submission of the letter alongside the nomination form to the party’s helmsman was to ensure that the aspirants had no legal backing in the event that they later changed their minds and decided to go to court.
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A member of the APC National Caucus, Chief Sam Nkire, told the Press in a telephone chat yesterday that consensus was also a constitutional mode of nominating candidates for election and should be respected if the party decided to adopt it.
He added that, “Some of the presidential aspirants will voluntarily withdraw from the race when the going gets tough.”
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