Don joins APC presidential race

october 11, 2014
Vanguard News

Minna – A professor of business education at
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Mr
Mahmood Aliyu, has declared his intention to
contest the 2015 presidential election on the
platform of the All Progressive Congress
(APC).
The presidential aspirant made the declaration
at a press conference on Saturday in Minna.
Aliyu said his decision to vie for the
presidency was informed by the agitation for
the emergence of new crop of leaders “to fight
the malaise in the country.
“There has been agitation for the emergence
of new crop of leaders by well-meaning
Nigerians in order to take this country out of
problems.’’
The aspirant said APC was the only party that
would tackle the current security challenges
bedevilling the country.
He added that “an APC government will tackle
the security issue with all the seriousness it
requires and deserves.’’
Aliyu, however, called on the national
leadership of the APC to review the N27
million fee for picking the party’s presidential
nomination form.
He said “our party should have a rethink
about the fee for presidential nomination
forms, so that ordinary Nigerians can afford it.
“Ordinary people who have something to offer
get scared away by the amount; even the PDP
fee is not up to that of our party.’’
He described as embarrassing, reports that he
was being sponsored by the ruling PDP to run
for president, arguing that he had always been
in the opposition since he joined politics in
1993.
The presidential aspirant was born on Nov. 20,
1951 in Niger and he is an indigene of Offa in
Kwara. (NAN)