Newsone reports that Pastor Felix Nicholas has stepped down for Vice President and one of the frontrunners of the All Progressives Congressive, APC ticket for the 2023 election, Yemi Osinbajo.
This online news platform understands that Pastor Felix stated this at the ongoing presidential primary at Eagle Square in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital monitored by this Newsone Nigeria reporter.
Selected members of APC have gathered to vote on Tuesday in key primaries to choose a candidate for next year’s election to replace the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
More than 2,300 APC delegates will select a candidate to face 75-year-old Atiku Abubakar of the opposition People’s Democratic Party among others in the February 25 presidential ballot.
President Buhari, who is stepping down after the two terms he is allowed in the constitution, arrived at the Eagle Square convention centre early in the evening before voting was to start.
The Nigerian leader has spent days leading up to the convention in negotiations with the APC’s leaders seeking unity over a party candidate.
“The fate of the party depends on what we do here,” APC party chairman Abdullahi Adamu said, echoing Buhari’s call for unity in the ranks.