2023: Fayemi’s launch of presidential ambition with TNA flops in Ibadan

Prominent leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and politicians in the South West geo-political zone, on Tuesday,

The southwest launch of Ekiti Gov. Kayode Fayemi’s presidential ambition was ghosted by APC movers and shakers across the region on Tuesday.

His movement championing the 2023 ambition, The National Agenda (TNA), organized its launch at the International Conference Centre, of the University of Ibadan on Tuesday.

It turned the lacked color just as its version in the South East, South South, North West, North East and North Central.

The party men present were largely his support ase from Ekiti and some from Osun, bussed him with Ekiti Government vehicles.

They were conveyed to the venue with buses and cars belonging to the Ekiti State government.

The Director-General, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, Mr Seye Oyeleye, delivered a paper.

Among other oint he made, Oyeleye said the national agenda is nothing without investigating the national question.

“The national question in this context simply refers to deliberating on the efforts that will accommodate the competing and often, diverse interests and ideologies of several ethnicities, tribes, religions, cultures and some would say class, existing within one geographical entity,” he said.

“All other efforts aimed at solving our challenges are tantamount to putting the horse before the cart.

“The structural and systemic inefficiencies would continue to stall progress and breed disunity.”

The speaker also emphasised the systemic and structural deficiencies in the country before independence, and worsened by the intervention of the military.

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He proposed a broad-based constitutional development process for the sustainable development of the country.

The chairman of the Nigerian governors forum is among the southwestern aspirants hoping to take over from their party leader and President Muhammadu Buhari.