Aminu Tambuwal, speaker, House of Representatives, Tuesday, formally announced his withdrawal from the presidential race on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Tambuwal in a statement titled, ‘My political future’, issued on Tuesday lamented the scourge of poverty across the country during his consultation across 300 federal constituencies of the federation.
He said: “I have decided to suspend my participation in the presidential contest for now. I have done so as a sacrifice for the cohesion and unity of the APC.
“I am suspending my participation in the presidential race for now because I do not have any inordinate ambition to occupy any office. Nigeria is a country too great to sacrifice on the altar of partisan politics and personal ambition.
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“What any one becomes in life is exclusively in the hands of God. Only God gives power to whoever he pleases.”
Tambuwal said he came into the APC to enhance and build, and that in the interest of Nigeria and of the APC, and indeed, in the overriding national interest, he was withdrawing from the presidential race.
He added, “It has not been easy coming to this decision and I very well understand the ?! Loopfrustration, disappointment and disbelief of many who have committed so much to the project, including sacrificing not only their physical, financial and intellectual resources but indeed their personal ambitions in the 2015 electoral contest.”
On his political future, Tambuwal said: “On my part and with the greatest sense of modesty and responsibility, I wish to assure Nigerians that I am fully prepared, ready, willing, determined, available and armed with the requisite plans, programmes and ability, to undertake the great mission of rescuing our dear country from the clutches of institutionalised corruption, gross incompetence, greed and divisiveness. More later….
KEHINDE AKINTOLA
