The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, mentioned on Sunday there are 5 real presidential aspirants within the All Progressives Congress (APC).
No less than 28 aspirants together with Fayemi, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the APC Nationwide Chief, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, are vying for the social gathering’s presidential ticket at subsequent weekend’s major in Abuja.
The governor, who acknowledged this when he met the social gathering’s delegates in Minna, described the remainder of the aspirants as “pretenders.”
He mentioned: “Now you’ll be able to separate the pretenders from the contenders going by the variety of aspirants touring to states to hunt the votes of delegates.
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“I hear there’s a record of twenty-something presidential aspirants however solely about 5 of us are going around the states talking to delegates.”
Fayemi mentioned he determined to go to Niger State for a gathering with the delegates regardless of his private relationship with Governor Abubakar Bello as a result of they had been those in cost and would decide the aspirants’ destiny on the major.
“I’m not right here with any sense of entitlement. I don’t consider I don’t want to come back to Niger as a result of I’ve a private relationship along with your governor,” he added.
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