- Nigerians should frown at taking forms by proxy
- Carpets APC’s demand for voluntary withdrawal
By Seyi Babalola
For former Senate President Senator Ken Nnamani, the All Progressives Congress (APC) might be his last bus stop politically.
He said the APC is his last bus stop in party politics and that if the forthcoming presidential primaries of the party does not go his way, he would not return to the Peoples Democratic Party.
He said he would gladly support anyone picked by the party and would be willing to give the younger generation an opportunity.
Nnamani was the fourth Senate President and a prominent chieftain of the PDP decamped to the APC in 2017 and has remained an elderstatesman within the APC.
He spoke this morning while fielding questions on The Morning Show on Arise Television anchored by Dr Reuben Abati. Others on the Morning Show team are; ‘Tundu Abiola and Rufai.
Nnamani also flayed the new trend of collection of presidential forms by groups and proxies. He said anyone who have something to offer and is serious in tackling the nation’s rot must man enough to come out openly and get the form rather than getting it through proxies or faceless groups.
According to him, the nation’s presidency is a very serious office in the country and demands that Nigeria needs serious candidates who have something to offer in the interest of the country.
Nnamani is a Presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress who has picked the N100 million form of the APC and is seeking to fly the flag of the party in the 2023 presidential election.
He however carpeted the inclusion of Form 18 in the APC’s Declaration of Interest and Nomination Form of the party. He said he found signing such form bogus and had refrained from signing it.
“I do not see any reason in asking anyone to sign a form when there has not even been a contest and I refused to sign such a form,” Nnamani said.
He also frowned at what he called the tendency to make the cost of aspiration for the office of the nation as costly as N100 million. He said the price is exorbitantly high and urged political parties from jumping on the precedence of the APC as such would discourage the best hands from participating in electoral process.
On the growing spate of insurgence and insecurity in the country, Nnamani said he would not hesitate to invite those with requisite experience in fighting insurgency to come into the country and train Nigerian security operatives especially the armed forces in arresting the scourge of insecurity, terrorism and banditry in the country.
He urged delegates of the party to pick him and anoint him to fly the flag of the party in the February 25, 2023 presidential election saying he is going to improve upon the achievements of the outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari. He said the president has performed to the best of his ability.