Former President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s backers in the All Progressives Congress on Thursday pressed on with the moves to field the ex-President as the APC\u2019s consensus presidential candidate.<\/p>\n
The Fulani group, which on Monday obtained the APC\u2019s N100m presidential nomination and expression of interest forms for Jonathan,\u00a0 said on Thursday that it would submit the forms on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n A spokesman for the group, Mayor Samuel, who is also the convener of the Youth Compatriots of Nigeria said, \u201cWe were deceived and brainwashed by those who claimed they could do it in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNow, we know better, under Jonathan the minimum wage could buy one or two bags of rice. What do we have today? We are begging President Jonathan to forgive us, we have realized our mistakes, we want him back to complete what he started.<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Jonathan is a member of the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on whose platform he served as president from 2010 to 2015, after the death of Umar Yar\u2019adua until his defeat by the ruling party.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s backers in the All Progressives Congress on Thursday pressed on with the moves to field the ex-President as the APC\u2019s consensus presidential candidate. The Fulani group, which on Monday obtained the APC\u2019s N100m presidential nomination and expression of interest forms for Jonathan,\u00a0 said on Thursday that it would submit the forms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,313,4325],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-goodluck-jonathan","tag-presidential-nomination-form"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8083,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}