Twenty-five presidential candidates running on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform beat the deadline for submitting forms ahead of the party’s primary on May 30 to June 1.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, and Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, according to party sources, did not submit their forms.
Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Rotimi Amaechi, former Minister of Transportation; Godswill Akpabio, former Minister of the Niger Delta; Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, former Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation; Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo State; and Ibikunle Amosun, former governor of Ogun State.
Pastor Tunde Bakare; Ben Ayade, Cross River State Governor; Dave Umahi, Ebonyi State Governor; Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti State Governor; Emeka Nwajiuba, former Minister of State for Education; Ken Nnamani, former Senate President; Yahaya Bello, Kogi State Governor
Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, governor of Jigawa State, and Ahmed Yerima, former governor of Zamfara State.
Senator Ajayi Borroffice, the only female presidential candidate, Uju Kennedy Ohnenye; Pastor Nicholas Felix Nwagbo; former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole; President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan; AfDB President, Akinwumi Adesina; former Minister of State, Petroleum, Timipre Sylva; former Minister of Information, Chief Ikeobasi Mokelu and Tein Jack Rich are also on the list of presidential
