12 presidential candidates under the auspices of the Forum of Presidential Candidates of Political Parties for Good Governance on Thursday have jettisoned their ambitions to and endorsed President Mohammadu Buhari.
Briefing State House Correspondent after their closed-door meeting with President Buhari in Aso Rock, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said the 12 candidates decided without prompting to subordinate their own ambitions to that of the President, instead of running for the presidency on Saturday.
The candidates include Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA), Shittu Mohammed Kabiru; Independent Democrats, Edozie Nnamdi Madu; Movement for Restoration and Defence of Democracy, Danjuma Mohammed; Allied Peoples Movement, Mamman Yusuf Naptali; and Save Nigeria Party, Ahmed Buhari,
Others are Mass Movement of Nigeria, Alhaji Isabi Dansaki, Advanced Congress of Democrats, Ikechukwu Nwokeafor, Yes Party, Alistar Shoyode, Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party, Charles Ughalli, United Peoples Congress, Kenneth Ibe Kalu, Nigeria Element Progressives Party, Comrade Isiaka Paul Ebili and National Democratic Liberty Party, Robinson Apu.
