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Jonathan expected to submit APC presidential form today

Former Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan is expected to submit his presidential nomination form and expression of interest form to contest the 2023 presidency.

Jonathan has allegedly accepted to re-contest the presidency under the auspices of the ruling All Progressives Congress.

Report has it that Jonathan accepted to run, barely 48 hours after he disowned a group of nomads who claimed to have paid the princely N100million fee for the forms on his behalf.

NAN, in its report, cited an anonymous source in Jonathan’s camp as saying that the former president had already registered as a member of the APC in his Otuoke Ward, in Bayelsa state.

The alleged source was quoted as saying that “several bigwigs of the party (APC) have also been calling Jonathan to pledge their loyalty and support to the former president’’

“At least three top African leaders called the former president on the matter. They all urged him to run. One of them specifically told him that it didn’t make sense travelling all over Africa settling disputes only to shy away from leadership responsibility in his home country.”

“Another reminded him of the implication of failing to put the experiences he garnered as a former Nigerian president and as a continental statesman to good use,” the source added but did not mention the names of the African leaders.

The source cited some of the African leaders as telling Jonathan that Nigeria was passing through challenging times and “needed a unifier like Jonathan at this time’’.

Jonathan lost his return bid to incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.

The former president is currently in Dakar, Senegal, to attend a Dialogue on Sustaining Democratic Principles in the ECOWAS sub-region organised by the West African Elders Forum(WAEF).

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