2023: Former Ogun Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, Joins Presidential Race
By Kabir Akintayo
A former Governor of Ogun State and Chairman, Senate Committee on Capital Market, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has announced plan to join the 2023 Presidential race.
Amosun said he will officially declare for the race on Thursday May 5 at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja.
According to an invitation letter made available to POLITICS DIGEST on Wednesday, Amosun, said being a two-term governor and two-term Senator, he has amassed the requisite experience to lead the nation.
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“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 galvanise our dear country to achieve her manifest destiny as leader in Africa and of the black race,“ the invitation letter read in part.
With the declaration of Amosun and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo also in the race, Ogun State will be having at least two Presidential aspirants who will join others to fight for the APC ticket on May 30, 2022.
