The ruling party appeared to have relied on a clause that mandated primary contenders to withdraw from a race voluntarily or be arbitrarily substituted by the party.
The Nigerian leader failed to name his favourite aspirant two days to the ruling party’s national convention.
Mr Ekwerenmadu had earlier withdrawn from the party’s gubernatorial primary election, which produced Peter Mba as the party’s flag bearer.
“In the absence of this clear non-agreement of the southern brothers to support zoning of the tickets to the South-East, I wielded my support to the North-East.”
Messrs Buhari and Malami are contending among others, that the said section of the Electoral Act 2022 is in conflict with constitutional provisions.
Mr Badaru stated this when Mr Amaechi, the immediate past Minister of Transport, met with delegates from the state in Dutse on Wednesday.
This brings to 26 the number of APC presidential aspirants to pick the N100 million nomination forms.
The bill provided appropriate penalties and expanded the scope of supervisory bodies to effectively implement anti-money laundering laws in Nigeria.
Mr Tinubu met with APC senate caucus on Wednesday.
The lawmaker further explained that the bill would strengthen the criminal confiscation procedure.
