Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Monday picked the N100 million Presidential form of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Senate President becomes the 24th aspirant to pick the party’s expression of interest and nomination forms for the May 30 primary.
A group of his friends led by Chief Sam Nkire, a member of the National Caucus of the party and 15 other Senators, purchased the form for him at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
Sam Nkire claimed that they are supporting him based on national stability.
“We are here you can see beside and behind me Senators and senior members businessmen and politicians who are members of the APC and some other Nigerians who want a new president.
“The new president they want is Ahmad Lawan, the current president of the Senate of Nigeria,” he said.
On why they want the current Senate President to be the president, he said: “We want him to be president because of national stability.
“The president that we are bringing for the Nigerian people is a Nigerian president, not an Igbo president, not a Fulani president, not a Yoruba president.
“But a Nigerian president who we have watched and seen that there would be no other candidate that will be so level-headed and feeling for the poor Nigerians.”
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Asked if he has heeded the call to serve in the capacity, he said: “We are not here on our own, we have his backing.
“Even though friends and brothers contributed to purchase this form for him but he has given us the go-ahead.”
On whether the party’s zoning arrangement is no longer standing, he said: “Let me tell you, you’re a journalist, not a politician. Every politician is in politics to win. It is PDP that is driving us to do this.
“We have to say so. But we don’t want PDP to take the government from us. If you give the position to a Southerner and PDP gives to a Northerner, APC will go into the wilderness and we are not ready to go into the wilderness.”
