A former governor of Zamfara State Ahmed Yerima has declared his intention to contest for Nigeria’s presidency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in 2023.
Yerima said at a media briefing in Abuja on Wednesday that he had on three occasions stepped down to enable President Muhammadu Buhari clinch the presidential ticket of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party as well as the APC.
The ex-governor said he was not aware the party had zoned the presidency to the south in 2023.
“I don’t think there is anything like agreement. You can ask Mr President, he led the group, Asiwaju was there, I was part of it, there was no meeting I didn’t attend or any meeting that I attended that there was such agreement,” he said.
“(Such an) Agreement can’t be verbal; it has to be written. In any case, any agreement that is contrary to laws of this country is not an agreement. The constitution is very clear, the constitution of the political parties, the Electoral Act. We are in a democracy and democracy is governed by processes and procedures and bylaws.”
