2023 Election: Former Zamfara Governor Enters Presidency Race

Ahmed Sani Yerima, the former governor of Zamfara state on Wednesday joined the league of politicians that have declared their intentions to contest at the 2023 Presidential election.

Yerima who made his intentions known at a media briefing in Abuja on Wednesday revealed that he pended his ambition to enable President Muhammdu Buhari to clinch the Presidential ticket of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and All Progressives Congress (APC).

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Further revealing that APC did not have any agreement on zoning, Yerima said:

“You see, I don’t think there is anything like agreement. You can ask Mr. President, he led the group, Asiwaju was there, I was part of it, there was no meeting I didn’t attend or any meeting that I attended that there is such agreement.

“(Such an) agreement can’t be verbal; it has to be written. In any case, any agreement that is contrary to the laws of this country is not an agreement. The constitution is very clear, the Constitution of the political parties, the Electoral Act. We are in a democracy and democracy is governed by processes and procedures and by laws.”

“I give you an example of America, George Bush (Snr) was President, George Bush (Jnr) became President. They are from the same family not from the same state, not from the same zone. This is a democracy, if Nigerians decide to vote for Yerima, so be it.”

Elected as Governor of Zamfara state in 1999, Yerima who introduced the controversial Shariah Law in the North-West state in 2000, finished his tenure as the state governor in 2007 after which he was elected as a senator where he has been till the 2019 general election.