2023 Presidency: Bola Tinubu, Governor Kayode Fayemi, Mentioned, As South-West Declares Readiness To Take Over From President Muhammadu Buhari

The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has on Sunday, declared that the Yoruba nation is ready to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari, come 2023, .

The body called on prominent Yoruba Leaders in the All Progressives Congress, APC, to urgently address the unwarranted division among its ranks, and ensure that the South-West region clinches the Presidential ticket of the party in 2023.

Addressing Journalists in Ado Ekiti, the ARG Publicity Secretary in Ekiti, Prince Michael Ogungbemi, said: “ARG had met, and we had concluded that the Yoruba nation is ready to lead Nigeria. We have a blueprint that we can present to any Presidential Candidate that can bring better democratic governance to all Nigerians.

“The South-West is ready to take over. We have human and material resources. The Political Leaders must go on consultations. We have six geopolitical zones, South-West is just a block. Tinubu must lead this block. Also, Luckily, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, who is the NGF Chairman, is from the South-West.

“They must move for a united family, to clamour for the Presidency for the South-West, and produce a unified front. If they can speak with one voice, we will actually clinch this ticket, because it is our turn.

“We cannot go into that race with a divided house. Tinubu, Fayemi, Akande, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, Gen. Alani Akinrinade, Prof. Banji Akintoye, Senator Femi Okurounmu, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, and others, must convey a meeting of the progressive Politicians in the zone, so that we can be united. If we have a Candidate that is acceptable to both the North and the South, we will surely win.

“But Yoruba nation will blame Tinubu, Fayemi and Akande, if the South-West fails to clinch the ticket”, he said.

The ARG added that the APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu, APC Pioneer Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, and the Chairman, Nigeria’s Governors Forum, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, should deploy their strategic positions to unite the zone, and clinch the Presidential ticket that may likely be zoned to the South in the APC.

The socio-cultural and political body, also advocated for what it called, “classical restructuring” of the country, that would correct the highly entrenched lopsidedness in all zones and ethnic groups in phases.

The ARG Chief told President Muhammadu Buhari that the country cannot run away from it, saying that it remains the best panacea for peace and unity among diverse Nigerian citizens.

“Nigeria needs to be restructured, but what we need is classical restructuring, it might not be holistic for now. With restructuring, governance at the State will be healthier and more benefiting, the running of the States will be healthier.

“Governance under the Presidential system is very powerful and costly, but with power residing in the States and Local Governments, things will be better. We must have a roundtable referendum to achieve this. It is not to satisfy certain groups, it will bring geometric progressive order, because we have not been moving at the right pace.”

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