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2023: Only Five Presidenti­al Aspirants are Real Contenders, Says Fayemi

- Adedayo Akinwale Victor Ogunje

inAbujaand inAdoEkiti

Governor of Ekiti State and a presidenti­al aspirant on the platform of the All Progressiv­es Congress (APC), Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has said that out of the 23 presidenti­al aspirants of the party only five of them are real contenders.

Fayemi stated this when he visited Niger state governor,

Abubakar Bello in Minna.

In a statement released yesterday by the Kayode Fayemi Presidenti­al Campaign Organisati­on, he said there were only five presidenti­al aspirants in the ruling party, saying the others are pretenders.

He stated: “This is a season of visits and states keep receiving us. The list of presidenti­al aspirants says there are 23 but only five of us are going around the country.

With this, you can separate the pretenders from the contenders.

“I am ready for the job. I want you to take a bet on me and you will have no cause to regret. I can remake Nigeria without unmaking it. I believe in Project Nigeria and that Nigeria is worth fighting for and together we can regain the lost glory of Nigeria.”

Fayemi said if elected President, he would work towards addressing the insecurity challenges bedeviling the country, adding that the triggers of insecurity would be addressed while more attention would be paid to intelligen­ce and technology.

He assured the electorate that he would decentrali­ze the power supply as part of plan to fix the sector.

Fayemi noted: “Nigerians are not fully happy with us that we have not been able to move the needle towards the uninterrup­ted power supply.

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