{"id":33088,"date":"2014-11-13T21:33:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=33088"},"modified":"2014-11-13T21:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:33:30","slug":"tambuwal-picks-apcs-presidential-nomination-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tambuwal-picks-apcs-presidential-nomination-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Tambuwal Picks APC&#8217;s Presidential Nomination Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In obedience to the advise of former Lagos State Governor and chieftain of\u00a0the All Progressive Congress, APC, Mr. Ahmed Bola Tinubu, Aminu Tambuwal,\u00a0Speaker the House of Representatives has picked the notice of intent and\u00a0nomination forms to run for the office of president of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alhaji Tambuwal recently defected from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party\u00a0, a move political watchers claimed was to run for the governorship seat\u00a0his home State, Sokoto.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Tambuwal\u2019s indication of interest brings to five the number of persons\u00a0who vying for the nation\u2019s top job on the platform of the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Others who had earlier picked the forms are former Head of State,\u00a0Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Governor Rabiu\u00a0Kwankwaso of Kano state, and newspaper publisher, Sam Nda-Isiah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The APC has said it will conduct a modified primary election in which\u00a0delegates will vote for their candidate of choice from their home state,\u00a0after which a national convention will simply collate and ratify the votes\u00a0from across the country.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In obedience to the advise of former Lagos State Governor and chieftain of\u00a0the All Progressive Congress, APC, Mr. Ahmed Bola Tinubu, Aminu Tambuwal,\u00a0Speaker the House of Representatives has picked the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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