No fewer than seven All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirants on Tuesday night, stepped down for the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
The former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, was the first to throw in the towel.
The former Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun and Governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi, also stepped down for Tinubu.
Dimeji Bankole, the former speaker of the house of representatives; Muhammad Badaru, Jigawa governor; and Ajayi Boroffice, senator representing Ondo north, also withdrew from contesting the presidency and supported Tinubu.
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Uju Ohanenye, the only female APC presidential aspirant, also threw her weight behind Tinubu.
Meanwhile, Vice President Osinbajo did not step down from the race as many had expected.
The former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, had earlier warned that frontline Presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, might get ‘the MKO Abiola’ treatment during the presidential primary of the party by the powerful cabal within the presidency.
Fayose made this claim in an open letter to Tinubu on Monday, which he personally signed.
He warned Tinubu that he was swimming against the tide and should proceed with extreme caution.
The letter read in part, ‘Going by the handwritings that are now clearly on the wall, if I may consider sir, I see you as one that may be swimming against the political tide of the cabal in your party.
‘They are equally preparing for your actions and reactions and are fully set to contain same as they did to both Awolowo and Abiola.
‘Unfortunately, your kingdom has been badly balkanised if what happened in Abeokuta is anything to go by.’
Fayose added, ‘for reasons of not being misrepresented, I will like to stop here and allow you to take your decisions, good or bad as a wise full-grown adult whom you are.
‘The book of Proverbs 22 verse 3 reads, ‘Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it but unthinking people will walk into it’.’
Africa Today News, New York recalls that MKO Abiola was the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election.