Presidency 2023: Amosun increases number of southwest aspirants for APC presidential ticket

Senator Ibikunle Amosun, former Governor of Ogun State, on Thursday, declared formally for the 2023 presidential election. making the declaration in Abuja, which was attended by another APC presidential aspirant, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, former Governor Amosun highlighted an eight-point agenda through which he intends to transform the country’s fortunes. The former governor has increased the number of presidential aspirants from the southeast jostling for the APC presidential ticket.

According to Amosun: “The two pillars of the agenda that I will elaborate in the weeks ahead are national security and economic development.

“Upon these two pillars, we will create a national architecture for human flourishing that is unprecedented in our national history.

“Based on these two pillars, we will erect a national agenda which, apart from national security and economic development, will include healthcare, education agriculture and food security, infrastructural rural and urban development, technology, innovation and digital economy, and nation building.

“Guided by the unprecedented investment in human security, the integration of the eight areas of this carefully planned agenda for national reawakening will, within four years, unleash unparalleled human resource that will make Nigeria proud of their motherland.

“It bears repeating that Nigeria has the required manpower, both at home and abroad to accomplish this agenda. Under my leadership, we will mobilise Nigeria’s immense human and natural resources to rebuild our education sector, healthcare, infrastructure, including electricity, roads and water supply.”

Amosun will have Fayemi, who was at his declaration, to contend with for the APC ticket, including APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and others.