By our Reporter
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress has officially submitted his completed nomination forms to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Tinubu had defeated former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and 12 others to clinch the APC sole presidential ticket at the party’s national convention.
However, the national leader of the APC on Wednesday signed and personally returned the forms two days ahead of schedule deadline as stipulated by the electoral law and INEC guidelines and timetable.
According to a close source in Bola Tinubu media campaign,it was learnt that the name of the Vice President to be announced by APC will be disclosed as times go on.
However,there are speculations that he has submitted the name of a chieftain of the APC in Katsina State, Alhaji Ibrahim Kabiru Masari.
Masari is a serving board member of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru, Plateau State. His name was statutorily allowed in lieu of the provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act. He would be substituted later after an agreement has been reached on Tinubu’s running mate,” he said.