Leaders of the All Progressives Congress in the South-West, on Friday, cautioned presidential aspirants from the zone to guard against their utterances.
Checks by Saturday PUNCH indicated that there were eight aspirants from South-East, nine from the South-West, seven from the South-South and four from the North.
In the North, the aspirants are Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State; his counterpart in Jigawa State, Abubakar Badaru; Yerima; Adamu Garba and a businessman, Dr Ibrahim Bello Dauda.Meanwhile, Umahi said on Friday that it would be against the spirit of justice, fair play and equity for persons from the South-West and South-South to contest against aspirants from the South-East.
The minister’s declaration came less than 24 hours after a political support group, The Patriots for Ogbonnaya Onu, led by former Deputy Vice-Chancellor , University of Port Harcourt, Prof Hakeem Fawehinmi, advised Osinbajo, Tinubu and others to drop their presidential ambition for Onu.More aspirants obtained APC presidential forms on Friday. At the International Conference Centre to pick the forms were various groups representing Onu, Amosun, Boroffice and Yerima.
The former governor, who instituted Sharia in Zamfara State, said if voted into office, he would respect the Nigerian constitution and not impose Sharia law on the country.
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