Former Governor of Ogun state, Ibikunle Amosun is set to declare his intention to run for the 2023 Presidential Ticket of his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.
POLITICS NIGERIA gathered that Amosun is set to declare this week in Abuja. Below is a statement signed by him on the matter;
“I bring you warm greetings from my family, my constituents, the entire people of Ogun State, and my support groups across Nigeria. It is with the greatest respect that I write to notify you and my Distinguished Colleagues of my intention to contest for the Office of President of our dear country, the Federal Republic of Nigeria and to respectfully invite you and my and my support groups across Nigeria.”
“It is with the greatest respect that I write to notify you and my Distinguished Colleagues of my intention to contest for the Office of President of our dear country, the Federal Republic of Nigeria and to respectfully invite you and my Distinguished Colleagues to the formal declaration ceremony.”
“I have been blessed by God to serve as Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria between 2003 and 2007 and as a two-term Governor of Ogun State between 2011 and 2019. I have also had the privilege to be elected a second time to the Senate of the Federal Republic in 2019 where I currently serve the good people of Ogun Central Senatorial District.”
“My varied experience in private and public life has imbued me with requisite insights, experiences and network of relationships adequate to provide a leadership that will galvanize our dear country to achieve her manifest destiny as leader in Africa and of the black race.”
He is set to declare on Thursday at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja by 11 a.m.
