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Rotimi Amaechi, transportation minister, has obtained the presidential expression of interest and nomination forms of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Amaechi obtained the forms worth N100 million in Abuja on Thursday.

The minister is one of those on the long list of presidential hopefuls on the platform of the ruling party.

Also, Ken Nnamani, a former senate president, was at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja to pick up his presidential expression of interest and nomination forms of the APC.

Ken Nnamani receives APC presidential nomination form

Aside from the aforementioned hopefuls, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, and Tunde Bakare, the serving overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, also obtained their forms on Thursday.

Laolu Akande, spokesman of Osinbajo, said “a passionate team of support groups and individual Nigerians from across the country” purchased the APC presidential forms for his principal.

Other presidential hopefuls seeking to contest on the platform of the APC include Bola Tinubu, a former Lagos governor; Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti governor; Rochas Okorocha, senator representing Imo west; Yahaya Bello, Kogi governor; and Ibikunle Amosun, a former governor of Ogun.

Meanwhile, the party has extended the sale of its nomination forms till May 10.