Nigeria’s Junior Education Minister Buys N100m Forms for Presidential Race

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajuiba, has obtained forms to express interest in the 2023 presidential election.
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Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Wednesday in Abuja, became the first of many aspirants to obtain copies of the Nomination and Expression of Interest forms to vie for the Presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress.
The Minister of State, who is 54 years of age, reportedly bought his forms after some associates contributed the some of N100m for the purpose.

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Before his appointment into the cabinet as junior minister, Nwajuiba was Chairman Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Fund (TETFund).
A lawyer, he contested for the Imo state governorship on the platform of All People’s Party in 2003, 2007 and 2011.
He had earlier elected a member of the House of Representatives in 1999 – 2003 where he served as House of Representatives committee chairman on Land, Housing and works. He was a founding member of All Progressives Congress and Secretary of the Constitution drafting committee that produced the Constitution that gave birth to All Progressives Congress in 2013.

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