How 20 House of Reps Members picked APC Nomination Form for Tambuwal

Tambuwal’s presidential aspiration has taken a new turn as 20 members of the House of Representatives yesterday collected the presidential nomination and expression of interest form on his behalf.

APC’s national organizing secretary, Senator Osita Izunazo, told journalists that House spokesman Hon. Zakari Mohammed led others to the APC secretariat where they collected the form.

Although none of the lawmakers spoke to journalists, a party source disclosed that those who picked the form were not sure whether Tambuwal would accept it. “They said they did not get the consent of the speaker before coming to pick the presidential nomination form on his behalf. They further explained that it was the speaker who would tell the whole world whether he had joined the race or not,” said the lawmaker.

According to the APC timetable, today is the last day for the submission of the nomination form for the presidential primary. It is recalled that Tambuwal, while defecting to the APC two weeks ago, gave political developments in his home state, Sokoto, as the reason for his action. It was already taken for granted that Tambuwal would be picked as the APC consensus candidate for the Sokoto State governorship election.

Sokoto State governor Aliyu Wamakko had told stakeholders of the party in the state a few days before Tambuwal’s defection to the APC that the plan to install him as the party’s governorship candidate was hatched long ago. “I want to inform all stakeholders of the APC gathered here that Tambuwal has been with us since the formation of our great party.

We told him to remain in PDP until the day of nomination of the party’s governorship candidate, and today is the day,” he had said. Apparently, the governor had penciled down Tambuwal as his successor, and to smoothen the plot, the governorship slot was also zoned to Sokoto South where the speaker hails from.

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