(BREAKING): Northern groups purchase N100m APC presidential forms for Jonathan

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan speaks to the media on the situation in Chibok and the success of the World Economic Forum in Abuja May 9, 2014. Jonathan said on Friday he believes 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist insurgents last month are still in his country and have not been moved to Cameroon. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW BUSINESS)

A coalition of northern groups has purchased the All Progressives Congress (APC) expression of interest and nominations forms for former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest for the office of the president in 2023.

This brings to an end the weeks of speculation that the former president intends to return to Aso Villa which he occupied between 2009 and 2015.

Recall that Jonathan, while seeking re-election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lost to the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari of the APC in 2015.

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