Don’t Allow Atiku, PDP, An Inch Near Nigeria’s Treasury – Tinubu
The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has asked Nigerians to retire the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, with their votes in 2023.
Addressing his supporters and party members at the Lagos Presidential Rally held at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Asiwaju Tinubu also warned that the PDP should not be allowed an inch close to Nigeria’s Treasury owing to the destruction the party had brought on the country.
Asiwaju further described the PDP Presidential candidate, as a veteran aspirant, who should go home and rest.
“Atiku contested in SDP, he contested in PDP; he contested in ACN when we rescued him from Obasanjo. Now, he is contesting again in PDP. He should go home and rest.
“Atiku has been running with no destination. Use your PVC to vote him and his party out. Use your votes to retire him permanently this time. We must never again allow the rapacious and visionless gang of Peoples Destroying People to come near our commonwealth again. They were in government for 16 years, they didn’t remember Badagry Expressway, they didn’t remember East-West Road, they didn’t remember 2nd Niger Bridge.”
The former Governor of Lagos State also recalled how the people of Lagos State gave him a chance to deploy his talents for national progress and preservation of progressive politics.
Tinubu further noted that his party’s campaign is a broom revolution, and invoking the spirit of his late mother, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, the Iyaloja General, and then followed up with a folksong, singing in Yoruba, “Dagunro o se je, Tinubu o se pa,” meaning that he can not be killed.
The APC Presidential candidate said he would continue with progressive government, where Nigerians will not be forgotten in education, healthcare and employment generation.
Underscoring his support across the country, Tinubu noted that Governors of Kano, Kastina, Kaduna, Kwara, Kebbi as well as other APC governors were with him unlike his opponent, who could not hold his party together.
He equally thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for his commitment to the development of Nigeria and Lagos State.
“I specially thank President Muhammadu Buhari for the unprecedented Federal support and commitment to Lagos State. We have come a long way from Presidents whose sole obsession was to capture or conquer Lagos in a do-or-die fashion, to a President who loves the state greatly and is keen to see it do very well.
“Lagos has benefited tremendously in terms of infrastructure development, whether it is the Lagos-Ibadan Railway line, or the Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonsoki Expressway, the revamped National Theatre, the new International Airport Terminal or the support that has made the Lekki Deep Sea Port possible and the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Plant, as well as the Red Line of the Lagos Metro, which is sharing part of the Federal corridor.”
Tinubu also appealed to Lagosians to vote for Governor Babajide SanwoOlu and his Deputy, Obafemi Hamzat, for a second term.
“Dear Lagosians, my appeal to you today, is to ask you to renew the mandate of Babajide SanwoOlu and Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat for another 4 years. Do not let the execution and implementation of the bold vision of more than two decades be aborted or suspended.”
Asiwaju Tinubu also called on the youths and students to vote for SanwoOlu and Hamzat for the stability of Lagos State.
“The lives of over 22 million people are too important to be subjected to tragic experiments in the hands of kindergarten politicians. Babajide SanwoOlu and Obafemi Hamzat have been schooled in the finest tradition of people-management and development planning.”
Those who graced the rally included the Party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu; Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila; APC Vice Presidential Candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima; and Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Kebbi, Atiku Bagudu.
Others are the Director-General of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaigns and Governor of Plateau State, Hon. Simon Bako Lalong, as well as Governors Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano; Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina; Dapo Abiodun of Ogun; Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun; Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa; Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq and Abiodun Oyebanji of Ekiti.
Also the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola; Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare; and former Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi were in attendance, amongst others.
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