Professor Dora Akunyili has resigned her position as information minister with effect from yesterday to seek the Anambra Senatorial District ticket under the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
President Goodluck Jonathan has since accepted her resignation and appointed Minister of State for Information and Communications Labaran Maku to replace her as the substantive minister.
Akunyili, who turned-in her resignation letter yesterday at the weekly Federal Executive Council, told the council that she has decided to cross-over to the APGA, which is the ruling party in the state, to seek for APGA’s ticket.
She also told council that having reflected over the years about events in Nigeria and in particular her state, Anambra State, “I have, therefore, decided to join my Governor, Peter Obi, who is doing a great job in continuing to build Anambra State as an APGA senator. In this regard, I intend to pick the nomination form today to run for the office of Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly.”
Shortly after briefing State House correspondents at the end of her last FEC meeting, Akunyili, drove in convoy of about 50 vehicles to the APGA national secretariat in Abuja where she paid N3.5 million for the nomination forms to run against Barrister Chike Maduekwe for the APGA senatorial ticket.
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