Fela Durotoye issues statement on consensus candidate for 2019 Election

Fela Durotoye has said he is ready for a coalition in a bid to defeat the APC and PDP in the upcoming presidential election

This is coming moments after Oby Ezekwesili announced her withdrawal from 2019 presidential race saying she has opted to help build a coalition to defeat APC and PDP in the February election.

Durotoye who is the presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), said he is ready to submit himself to any transparent process that will select a consensus candidate.

See his full statement below;

I have always believed that leadership is about service and sacrifice and today, I would like to commend Dr. (Mrs) Oby Ezekwesili for leading the charge to forming a viable coalition to presenting a Consensus Candidate for the 2019 Presidential elections.

To ensure that an alliance is formed and we present a united front, I AM READY to come into any coalition talks with my brothers Omoyele Sowore and Prof. Kingsley Moghalu and to submit myself to any transparent process that will help us arrive at a selection of a Consensus Candidate from amongst us.

To be clear, if the process produces any other candidate apart from myself, I AM READY to support whoever the Consensus Candidate is and to do all I can to support the coalition to win the 2019 Presidential elections for our generation.

Once again, I implore the frontline candidates in our generation.

Let us come together and seize this historic window of opportunity for our generation to select one of us to go ahead of us … so that ALL OF US can come together and speak with one voice at the 2019 General Elections.

Together, we can do the perceived impossible.

Our generation is depending on us.

We must not let them down.
Signed
Fela Durotoye
Presidential Candidate
Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN)