{"id":92905,"date":"2022-03-17T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=92905"},"modified":"2022-03-17T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:12:08","slug":"2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Barely few hours after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, commenced sales of nomination and expression of interest form to aspirants that will be participating in its primary election, a group, North East Business Forum, has purchased forms for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The PDP National Executive Committee, NEC had on Wednesday at its 95th meeting approved guidelines for the conduct of its primaries for all elective position.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The party also fixed a total of N40 million for its presidential nomination and expression of interest forms.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Presenting the forms to Atiku at his Asokoro, Abuja home, Chairman of the North East Business Forum, Alhaji Dalhatu Funakaya said they pleaded\u00a0 with Atiku in November last year in Gombe to join the presidential race and promised to foot the bill for his nomination forms.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;We made a pledge in Gombe in November 2021 and we called on him to contest and pledged to purchase nomination form for him.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said they have fulfilled their own side of the bargain and hope the former vice president will formally declare to contest the 2023 presidential election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In his response, Atiku harped on the imperative of national unity to tackle the myriad of problems facing the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The challenges before us are historical; our unity threatened, economy in worst state of affairs and our security is a disaster.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;This is why there must be unity to address these challenges.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The challenges before us are greater than our differences of ethnicity and religion.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">End<\/div>\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>Barely few hours after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, commenced sales of nomination and expression of interest form to aspirants that will be participating in its primary election, a group,&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":92906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92905","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Barely few hours after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, commenced sales of nomination and expression of interest form to aspirants that will be participating in its primary election, a group,&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-17T18:12:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Atiku-Abubakar-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-17T18:12:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/\"},\"wordCount\":258,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Atiku-Abubakar-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Exclusive\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/\",\"name\":\"2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Atiku-Abubakar-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-17T18:12:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Atiku-Abubakar-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Atiku-Abubakar-1.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest - Pointblank News","og_description":"Barely few hours after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, commenced sales of nomination and expression of interest form to aspirants that will be participating in its primary election, a group,&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2022-03-17T18:12:08+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":360,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Atiku-Abubakar-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest","datePublished":"2022-03-17T18:12:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/"},"wordCount":258,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Atiku-Abubakar-1.jpg","articleSection":["Exclusive"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/","name":"2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Atiku-Abubakar-1.jpg","datePublished":"2022-03-17T18:12:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Atiku-Abubakar-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Atiku-Abubakar-1.jpg","width":640,"height":360},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-northern-business-forum-purchases-nomination-form-for-atiku-begs-him-to-contest\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"2023: Northern Business Forum purchases nomination form for Atiku begs him to contest"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}