By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, ABUJA
GOVERNOR Benedict Ayade of Harmful River Express has made public his desire to contest the 2023 presidential election, noting that he had the blessing of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Governor Ayade mentioned this while briefing Express Home correspondents after he met within the help of closed doors with President Buhari on the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He introduced that he had secured the President’s nod to preserve consultations over his bear presidential ambition.
The governor defined that he was on the Presidential Villa to look route from Buhari on align within the bustle as much as the 2023 polls, noting that he would possess whatever the President directs.
He identified that he did no longer repeat President Buhari that he wished to affix the presidential run as he seen that it was no longer respectable telling an place of job holder that one was attracted to taking over his place of job.
He, alternatively, mentioned the President expressed delight that he did no longer keep up a correspondence of his desire to succeed him in place of job, nonetheless gave him the move-ahead to preserve consultations on the topic while he (Buhari) watches him.
Ayade went on to spell out his programme of crawl for the nation if he turns into the President next yr, stressing that his administration would hear to three key areas — security, employment, and financial system.
Asked about his probabilities in opposition to Jonathan need to the used President be half of the run, Ayade mentioned: “I if fact be told have wide appreciate for President Jonathan. So, I if fact be told have not any challenges in anyway.
“I suspect that the occasion management will snatch the correct candidate that can fetch our occasion to victory and so whenever you heard me successfully, I’m just section of the household, entirely actual to the President, looking for to bustle for president and I’m working.
“At any level in time the political management of my occasion, the APC, feels that President Jonathan is the correct candidate that can fetch us to victory, I’ll turn my enhance for him.”