2023: Reactions Trail The Purchase Of N100m Presidential Forms By Minister Nwajiuba

By Akinwale Kasali

Reactions  have trailed the purchase of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential forms, for N100m, by the Minister for State, Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, a Lawyer.

A cross section of Nigerians, Activists and Political Analysts queried his source of wealth which enabled him to purchase the form at such exorbitant price.

Reacting, Popular Nigerian Human Rights Activist, Deji Adeyanju, queried the source of his wealth to have picked up Expression of Interest and Nomination forms of the All Progressive Congress, APC.

Adeyanju was particularly unhappy that the Minister coughed out a whopping N100 million to obtain the APC Presidential form.

Taking to his Twitter handle where he posted a copy of the receipt of the form he wrote:

”The Minister of State for Education just bought N100m APC Presidential nomination form and ASUU is still on strike. Today is day 72 since students have been home. These are the clowns that deceived Nigerians with CHANGE in 2015.”

In the same vein, Veteran Journalist, Chidi Levi, said that the APC-led Federal Government is a big scam and corrupt-enabling party.

He said the Party promoted corruption as it is surprising how Nwajiuba, a Junior Minister, amassed such wealth to purchase the APC Nomination form.

Bernard Sunday, a political analysts said that Nwajiuba and his likes in the APC Government have become stupendously rich under a President Muhammadu Buhari administration that promised to fight corruption.

“If a Minister in the very ‘poor’ Ministry of Education could afford N100m to buy Presidential form, only God knows how much those in lucrative Ministries must have stolen. Buhari, indeed is a mistake”, he said.

In an earlier report in this medium, Charles Igbo, our reporter had noted: “Nwajiuba, a one-time, one-term member of the House of Representatives, had since his exit from the House, contested for a couple of positions every four years, including to the office of the Governor of Imo State. Sadly, he had not been successful.

“However, fortunes smiled on him and President Buhari appointed him Minister for State, Education. Even though a junior Minister, Nwajiuba is known, in Abuja political circles, as being quite close to the President. He is in the inner circle, and allegedly, a member of the “faceless Aso Rock Cabal”, and well connected in circles where it matters most.”

However, those who know Nwajiuba say he was very rich before he became a Minister, and could easily afford the sum of N100m, Minister or no Minister.

On Tuesday, April 26, 24 hours before he purchased the forms, Nwajiuba had said those pressurising him to run for the Presidential office in 2023, had already contributed the sum of N100m for the forms. He neither mentioned any group or any name.