A former Governor of Zamfara
State, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima has declared that he would contest the 2019
Presidential election if President Muhammadu Buhari declines to seek a
re-election.
He said he would also be glad if
Nigerians endorsed his ambition.
He told newsmen on Sunday in
Abuja that his announcement does not fallout of his avowed commitment to
support President Buhari if he decides to re-contest the 2019 election.
Yerima representing Zamfara West
in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and who seconded the motion by
the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party for the President to run
for the 2019 election, said he would not contest against him.
According to him, nobody will
condemn him, if he decides to contest for the presidency because he has got the
right endorsement he needed to contest for the position and that he was in
politics to serve the interest of the masses and not for sheer glory or
showoff.
“I am in politics not for
personal aggrandizement but for the sheer glory. I am in politics to serve. And
I have not failed to do that,” Yerima said.
On the outcome of the APC, NEC
meeting, he said, “Yes I seconded the motion: I will support the President if
he decides to run in 2019. I will not contest against him, but if he does not
contest and I decide to come out, nobody will condemn me. That’s my personal
decision.”
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