Pro-Akinwumi Adesina Support Groups Buy APC Presidential Nomination Form

The President of the African Development Bank and former minister of Agriculture, Dr Akiwumi Adesina, on Saturday, obtained copies of his Nomination and Expression of Interest forms to vie for the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket.
This is as a coalition of 28 groups consisting of Youth Arise Movement, Nigerians in Diaspora One Nigeria Group, Prudent Youth Association of Nigeria, women groups, farmers, people with disabilities and other civil society groups, raised the N100 million fee to purchase the forms for the former minister.
The coalition is led by the Head, One Nigeria Group, Mohammed Saleh.
The payment acknowledgement slip exclusively seen by our correspondent on Saturday carried Adesina’s name as the recipient of the forms.

Adesina is, however, yet to declare his interest in contesting the presidency in the 2023 general election.
Speaking on behalf of the coalition, Ademola Babatunde of the Youth Arise Movement (YAM), who displayed an acknowledgement slip of the APC for the payment, said the forms would be collected on Sunday.
He listed some members of the coalition to include the One Nigeria Group, Prudent Youth Association of Nigeria, women groups, farmers, and persons with disabilities.

Babatunde, a former presidential candidate of the defunct Nigeria Community Movement Party (NCMP) in the 2019 presidential election, said the groups believe in Adesina’s capacity to fix the country’s challenges.
“We are 28 groups that came together after very serious consultations and deliberations on the way forward for a better and united Nigeria,” he told NAN.
“We unanimously decided that though the money is outrageous, if we truly want a better future for ourselves and our children, we must put our resources together to obtain the forms for Adesina.

We are very much aware of the critical time that Nigerians and our country, Nigeria, are going through.
“If we fail to support a candidate of credible and worthy note like Adesina, we will eventually hand over this country to the mediocre, who will finally destroy our commonwealth.
“This is one of the supports we are fundamentally and passionately determined to render for ourselves by putting Adesina forward to Nigerians.”