Rotimi Amaechi, the Transportation Minister, and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged older aspirants vying for the party’s presidential ticket in 2023 to “go home and rest”.
He made the remarks on Sunday in Kaduna, where he met with APC delegates ahead of the party’s presidential primaries, set to take place later this month.
The minister who referred to older aspirants in the competition as “elders”, claimed that he was the youngest person in the party gunning for the ticket.
Though he did not mention names, it is believed he was referring to the likes of former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who is presently 70 years old; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who is over 65 years old and former Edo governor, Adams Oshiomhole (70 years) among others.
He advised them to “go home and rest,” referring to them as “elders.”
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