Presidency 2023: Bisi Akande, Segun Osoba battle to unite southwest to produce APC candidate

Two elder statesmen from southwest Nigeria, former Governor Bisi Akande of Osun State and former Governor Segun Osoba of Ogun State, in collaboration with other stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the zone have step up activities to unite party stakeholders and supporters towards producing the APC presidential candidate for the 2023 elections and the next president for the country. The elder statesmen, Akande and Osoba, accordingly, convened a meeting of ACP stakeholders on Friday at the Lagos House, Marina, attended by the various presidential aspirants from the southwest.

Chief Akande, the pioneer Acting National Chairman of the APC, at the end of the meeting with the APC presidential aspirants from zone, declared that the southwest is united and will work together to produce the next president in Nigeria.

The former governor stated that all stakeholders agreed that the presidential aspirants should eschew from bitter antagonism, divisiveness, and focus on their consultations and campaigns with maturity.

The meeting was attended by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN, APC nation al leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, including some southwest APC governors, as well as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, former Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Minister of Works, and Housing; former Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, Minister of Interior; in addition to the Minister of Trade, Industry, and Investment, among others.