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November 5, 2010

AD to field presidential candidate for 2011 polls

By Henry Umoru

ABUJA—ALLIANCE for Democracy, AD, disclosed yesterday that it would field a presidential candidate, governorship candidates, senatorial, House of Representatives, and Houses of Assembly candidates for the 2011 general elections in all the six-geopolitical zones of the country.

According to the party, an opportunity will be created to enable eligible, credible and purposeful Nigerians aspire to the highest position in the country.

In a statement by its Deputy National Secretary, Ogwu Obiorah Ken, yesterday, at the end of the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting, said to achieve this, the Alliance for Democracy, AD, had fixed N5 million as nomination fee for its presidential aspirants.