Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has stepped down for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the ongoing APC presidential primary election.
When it was the turn for Fayemi to speak, he said Nigerian needed a man with experience to take the nation to the promised land.
He said he is still young and that he stepped down for Asiwaju Tinubu so that he could emerge presidential candidate of the party.
Fayemi said he had worked with Tinubu during the NEDECO struggle and that he would gladly step down for him.
He called on his supporters to vote support Tinubu.
Also, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole who had earlier spoken came back to the podium to announced that he is stepping down for Tinubu.
The delegates of the APC gathered to vote on Tuesday in a primary election to choose the party’s candidate for next year’s election to replace the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
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More than 2,300 APC delegates will select the candidate to face 75-year-old Atiku Abubakar of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party among others in the February 25 presidential ballot.
Buhari, who is stepping down after the two terms he is allowed in the constitution, arrived at the Eagle Square convention centre early in the evening before voting was to start.
The Nigerian leader has spent days leading up to the convention in negotiations with the APC’s leaders seeking unity over a party candidate.
“The fate of the party depends on what we do here,” APC party chairman Abdullahi Adamu said, echoing Buhari’s call for unity in the ranks.
