{"id":94359,"date":"2022-04-27T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=94359"},"modified":"2022-04-27T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T09:17:00","slug":"ben-ayade-joins-presidential-race-says-buhari-asked-him-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ben-ayade-joins-presidential-race-says-buhari-asked-him-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Ayade Joins Presidential Race, says Buhari asked him to run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade, has declared to run for the presidency on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Ayade, while speaking to State House Correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in his office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said that he was actually asked to join the race by the President.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Governor also said he would be flexible with his quest for the APC\u2019s presidential ticket, explaining that he would be subject to whatever decision the party and support any person settled for as the flag-bearer.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to unconfirmed report that the APC might present former President, Goodluck Jonathan, as the sole candidate for the 2023 presidential election, he said: \u201cI have great respect for President Jonathan and so I have no challenges whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that the party leadership will decide the appropriate candidate that will take our party to victory and so if you heard me well, I am just part of the family, absolutely loyal to the President, seeking to run for president and I\u2019m running.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt any point in time the political leadership of my party, the APC, feels that President Jonathan is the appropriate candidate that will take us to victory, I will turn my support for him. I am never ever going to fight the establishment, the institution, the aristocracy, the spiritual vortex of which God has placed a leader on the country, I will never question the powers of the leader of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never played the politics of antagonism or fights. 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