2023: Why southwest must produce Buhari's successor, Afenifere reveals
- Afenifere has declared that southwest would produce the next president of Nigeria
- President Buhari's tenure would end on May 29, 2023
- The group asked the APC to honour the pre-2015 agreement entered into by the leadership of the party
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The Yoruba Patriots Movement (YPM), a socio-cultural and political group and a pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, have said that the southwest should produce the next president.
The Nation report that the advised All Progressives Congress (APC) members to honour the pre-2015 general election agreement to ensure fairness and equity.
Legit.ng gathered that while speaking on Wednesday, January 7, in Ibadan, at a news conference heralding a Yoruba summit tagged: “Yoruba nation yesterday, today and tomorrow.”
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Oladosu Oladipo, the YPM national coordinator, said anything apart from Yoruba president in 2023 would not be tolerated.
The secretary-general of Afenifere led by Senator Biyi Durojaiye, Bayo Aina, said the Yoruba have realised that it is only the APC that can give Yoruba candidate a ticket.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that the Ekiti chapter of the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) is facing another hurdle over the presidential ambition of the state governor, Kayode John Fayemi, and Bola Tinubu.
It was reported that this is as the party is polarised into two, with each faction pledging loyalty to the governor and Tinubu who is the national leader of the APC.
Tinubu, a former Lagos state governor and Fayemi who is the chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) are reportedly eyeing the country's biggest office when the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari ends in 2023.
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In another report, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu, Ayogu Eze, declared that the party would defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the state, during the next general election.
Ayogu, who was the governorship candidate of the APC in the 2019 election in the state, said the party would take over the Government House in 2023.
Eze added that a president of Igbo extraction was possible with the commitment of members from the region.
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