{"id":194309,"date":"2022-06-08T02:53:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T01:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=194309"},"modified":"2022-06-08T02:53:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T01:53:04","slug":"tunde-bakare-im-not-stepping-down-i-want-to-become-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/08\/tunde-bakare-im-not-stepping-down-i-want-to-become-next-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunde Bakare: I&#8217;m not stepping down, I want to become next president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Tunde Bakare, one of the presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress has tpromised to transform Nigeria if elected.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other candidates, Bakare did not step down for any aspirant rather epressed\u00a0confidence in becoming Nigeria\u2019s next president.<\/p>\n<p>Before his speech, the cleric had called for a one-minute silence for victims of the terrorist attack at the St Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not here to step down for anyone. I am here to step up as the 16th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bakare also said he would develop Nigeria like a genius if elected.<\/p>\n<p>The delegates of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/07\/full-text-of-tinubus-speech-at-the-apc-presidential-primary\/\">APC<\/a> gathered to vote on Tuesday in a primary election to choose the party\u2019s candidate for next year\u2019s election to replace the President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,300 APC delegates will select the candidate to face 75-year-old Atiku Abubakar of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party among others in the February 25 presidential ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, who is stepping down after the two terms he is allowed in the constitution, arrived at the Eagle Square convention centre early in the evening before voting was to start.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian leader has spent days leading up to the convention in negotiations with the APC\u2019s leaders seeking unity over a party candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fate of the party depends on what we do here,\u201d APC party chairman Abdullahi Adamu said, echoing Buhari\u2019s call for unity in the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot go into the general election next year without putting our house together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of the APC\u2019s debate over candidates relates to \u201czoning\u201d \u2013 an unofficial agreement among political elites that Nigeria\u2019s presidency should rotate between those from the predominantly Christian south and those from the largely Muslim north.<\/p>\n<p>After northern Buhari, observers expected the presidency to go to a candidate from the south.<\/p>\n<p>But the PDP \u2013 which held its primary on May 28 and 29 \u2013 chose Abubakar, a former vice president and a political stalwart who is a northern Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition\u2019s choice to ignore \u201czoning\u201d has made the APC reconsider how their candidate will appeal to the north, where voter numbers and participation are traditionally higher.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, who is the leader of the ruling party, has not declared support for any candidate and instructed APC members to \u201callow the delegates to decide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur objective must be the victory of our party and our choice of candidate must be someone who would give the Nigerian masses a sense of victory and confidence even before the elections,\u201d he said last week.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy security was deployed in central Abuja early Tuesday and streets were gridlocked as hundreds of APC supporters wearing the party colours of green, white and red gathered in and around the venue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Tunde Bakare, one of the presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress has tpromised to transform Nigeria if elected. 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