“We want to state that if the former President wanted to contest an election, he would make his intentions clear to the public and will not enter through the back door.”

Dr Jonathan’s Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, said in a statement hours after the news that the group had bought the form broke that the former did not authorise the purchase and consider the move by the group ‘an insult’.

“We wish to categorically state that Dr Jonathan was not aware of this bid and did not authorise it,” the statement read in part.

“We want to state that if the former President wanted to contest an election, he would make his intentions clear to the public and will not enter through the back door.”

In recent months, there have been increased speculations about whether the former President will run for his old post in in the 2023 general elections and there have been calls for him to do so.

But the former President has yet to state whether he would contest or not.

“While we appreciate the overwhelming request by a cross-section of Nigerians, for Dr Jonathan to make himself available for the 2023 Presidential election, we wish to state, that he has not in anyway, committed himself to this request,” Eze said.

“Buying a presidential aspiration form in the name Dr Jonathan without his consent, knowing the position he had held in this country, is considered an insult to his person. The general public is therefore advised to disregard it.”

A coalition of northern groups purchased the APC presidential nomination form and the expression of interest form at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, informing journalists that it was for Dr Jonathan.

Sporting fez caps with the inscription ‘run Jonathan run’, members of the coalition said the former president is the most qualified person to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.

In rejecting the forms, Dr Jonathan kept his plans close to his chest.

The purchase of the forms was the latest move in efforts by people who identify as his supporters to get him to contest.
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Is he registered in his ward ?

Kikikiki.. Except say na Mumu hin be.

What an insult...the annoying thing is that it's the same ingrates that wanted to burn Nigeria because of elections that are now forming "love"

Give the form to Lai Mohammed or Ngige if e never see the remaining N50M

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APC cannot meet Jonathan's conditions to contest under it's platform. Jonathan is not eligible to be Nigeria President, because he has been sworn in twice as the president of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria...So APC giving him a ticket to contest under it's platform is like a time bomb.so I guess it's a dead deal unless that section of the constitution would be Amended before the election.

chibrolex:
APC cannot meet Jonathan's conditions to contest under it's platform. Jonathan is not eligible to be Nigeria President, because he has been sworn in twice as the president of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria...So APC giving him a ticket to contest under it's platform is like a time bomb.so I guess it's a dead deal unless that section of the constitution would be Amended before the election.

He only swore once as a President the other who took over from Yaradua as his vice.

Good for him...we meeeuuuvvveee