Edo Election 2024: Acord Party Candidate, Iyere, Withdraws From Race

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Friday, September 20, 2024 at 05:15 PM

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Edo Election 2024: Acord Party Candidate, Iyere, Withdraws From Race

Comrade Kennedy Iyere, the Accord Party's, a candidate for the Edo gubernatorial election, has officially withdrawn from the race,.


Iyere cited the need to serve Nigeria at a higher level and wider space, leveraging his expertise to address the country’s social and economic challenges, particularly the food and hunger crisis.


He is a well-known entrepreneur and philanthropist who recently launched the multi-billion-dollar 'Food4All Initiative' to fight food insecurity and drive mass employment across Nigeria.


Over recent months, Iyere has become more deeply involved in national food security, leading the "Food4All Initiative," a multi-billion-dollar intervention designed to tackle food insecurity across the country.


The initiative, which was presented to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, aims to drive economic engagement through the "One-Family-One-Farmer Scheme;

" The project, backed by the Youths Off The Street Initiative (YOTSI) and Multi-Life Savers for the Less-Privileged People, is poised to create mass employment opportunities for everyone".


In the midst of justifying his withdrawal from the race, Iyere stated that; “My focus is no longer on the governorship seat but on a higher and bigger portfolio than a governor. I want to serve Nigerians at large and not just Edo indigenes. I want to help rebuild Nigeria’s lost economic greatness. I am a man of sophisticated international contacts, connections and influence, as a high-profile philanthropreneur, grant facilitator and humanitarian activist. Therefore, serving as a governor will actually place limitations on me. I am presently hugely contributing my efforts towards national development".


“I am assisting the federal government to devise a road map for the economic inclusion, engagement, self-emancipation of youths by designing and driving social intervention Programmes that aim to mitigate unemployment and enhance youth and women entrepreneurial opportunities for mass self-employment, wealth creation and poverty alleviation.


“These programmes are all sure to fully kick-start in the month of October 2024 and Nigeria will be placed yet again on the pathway of rapid economic recovery. Our intervention programmes will enhance opportunities for youth entrepreneurship engagement in multiple sectors, especially agriculture, food and beverage, technology, entertainment, innovation and creativity.


“More than six million youth and women entrepreneurs (as MSME owners and operators) shall be created or produced within the first one year of the official kick-off of this entrepreneurship programme. Nigerian youths and women lack access to the business capital required as entrepreneurs to either start up a new business or operate an existing business. This programme will squarely address that essential need,” Iyere stated.


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