The Presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his Labour Party counterpart, Mr. Peter Obi have named their running mates while returning their duly completed nomination forms to the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC).
The submission of the names of the running mates was in compliance with the Electoral Law and Guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC of June 17 2022 deadline for the submission of the names of parties’ running mates.
Ibrahim Kabir Masari, a Chieftain of the APC from Katsina State was named as Tinubu’s running mate while Labour Party picked Dr. Doyin Okupe, Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Obi’s running mate.
Though, the parties are at liberty to substitute the names at a later stage before the general election.
Tunde Rahman, Tinubu’s spokesman confirmed in a statement that the forms were returned on Wednesday, June 15, two days ahead of schedule.
“As stipulated by the electoral law and Independent National Electoral Commission guidelines and timetable, the standard-bearer of the All Progressives Congress, Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has returned his duly completed nomination forms to INEC.
“We wish to reiterate that Asíwájú Tinubu now stands ready to contest the February 25, 2023, presidential election to deliver progressive good governance to our people,” the statement reads.
A chieftain of the APC from Katsina state, Alhaji Kabiru Faskari also confirmed the name of Ibrahim Kabir Masari as the vice-presidential candidate of the party.
Speaking on a Channels Television programme monitored in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital on Friday, Faskari said; “Ibrahim Kabir Masari is our vice presidential nominee and he was the National Welfare Secretary of the (APC) under Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. He is a well-known politician.
“Well, he qualifies as a veteran in terms of politics. He began as a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He is young and represents the youth. He is grounded in politics because he was even a national officer of the APC.
“He is quite close to the presidential candidate because he has been with him for a long time and I believe it is a very informed decision to put out his name,” Faskari said.
He explained that the decision was entirely that of the presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has consulted with President Muhammadu Buhari, state governors and the national leadership of the party.
Faskari admitted that Masari may not have been very popular in the sense of being a state governor or cabinet minister, but that “he is very known to us in the APC”.
On its part, the Labour Party submitted the name of the former Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Doyin Okupe as the party’s vice-presidential candidate.
Okupe who disclosed this by himself last night while featuring in a programme on the Channels Televison, “Politics Today”, said that his name had been submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by his party as the Vice Presidential candidate.
“I stand in as the vice-presidential candidate of the party. The Labour party has submitted my name as the VP of the party,” he said.
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar picked Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as his running mate.
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