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(Video): Why I Stepped Down For Tinubu – Fayemi

By GWG Political Editor

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2 years ago

June 8, 2022

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Dr Kayode Fayemi explaining why he stepped down for Tinubu

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State who had for long been regarded as one of the most potent threats to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu shocked many when he stepped down for the former Lagos State governor at the All Progressives Congress, APC convention ground.

The move was a shock given the extensive measures that the outgoing governor of Ekiti State had gone in his bid for the presidential ticket. Over the last few years, Fayemi had walked a different political trajectory from that taken by Tinubu and had been regarded as a renegade within the Tinubu camp.

All that hostility melted the moment Fayemi stepped down for his “mentor.”

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Watch the moment that Fayemi followed by his wife went to embrace Tinubu after he surrendered.

Ekiti State governor and Presidential aspirant, Kayode Fayemi has explained the reason behind his stepping down for fellow aspirant, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Fayemi in stepping down for Tinubu said; “Our brothers from the Northern Governors Forum of the APC have led by example by proposing to party members that the next candidate of our party and by God’s grace the next president of our country must come from the Southern part of this country and I have come to a difficult but necessary decision and that decision is that we must look for the most appropriate person at this time to do the job.

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“I am prepared to sacrifice my ambition to be president of Nigeria. I am a young man and I still have a lot of time ahead of me and one person I have worked with in the trenches of democratic struggles and in the cause of governing Nigeria side by side, shoulder to shoulder, my mentor, my leader and supporter of mine and great fighter for the unity of Nigeria that I will recommend to all my supporters and my delegates starting with the 48 delegates from Ekiti state alone and others from across the country is that you please accord me the respect to offer the support you are giving me to my elder brother, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I am not doing him a favour but doing a duty of care for Nigeria,” Fayemi said in giving reasons why he stepped down for Tinubu.