Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, one of the presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said he is not stepping down from the race. Fayemi made this known on a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by the Director-General of Fayemi Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr. Femi Ige.
The statement thereby debunked a report that the Ekiti governor might be asked to step down for another aspirant.
He then called on Fayemi’s supporters to remain calm, focused, and not to lose faith, “because of the lies fabricated by political detractors’’. 
“No amount of late-night de-marketing will work against the Kayode Fayemi presidential project,’’ adding to the quote .
Summing up into realization, more than 20 presidential aspirants will be contesting for the APC’s ticket at its presidential primary election. They include Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the party, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, who until recently was, the Minister of Transportation.Others are ex-governor of Aka Ibom and former Minister of Niger Delta Development, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, former Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu and former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba.
Former Imo Governor, Sen. Rochas Okorocha, former Ogun governor, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Cross River’s Gov. Ben Ayade, and his Ebonyi counterpart, Gov. Dave Umahi, are also in the race.Also in the race are former President of the Senate, Sen. Ken Nnamani, Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, Jigawa’s Gov. Badaru Abubakar and President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan.Others are former Zamfara governor, Sen. Ahmed Yerima, Pastor Nicholas Nwagbo, and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole and the only female contender, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohnenye.
