Tinubu Congratulates Atiku on emergence as PDP Candidate, Group says Tinubu has the wining recipes
National Leader of All Progressives Congress and frontline presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for emerging as the flag bearer of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, following the primary conducted on Saturday in Abuja.
Tinubu commended Atiku for his patriotism and commitment to Nigeria’s progress.
Tinubu also congratulated the other contestants for the orderly and peaceful way they conducted themselves and for pledging to rally around the winner, in the true spirit of democratic sportsmanship.
He expected the former Vice-president, who was also the 2019 presidential candidate of the PDP, to be his worthy opponent, by the Grace of God and the support of APC delegates, in the coming 2023 presidential election.
The APC National Leader said Atiku’s victory didn’t come as a surprise to Nigerians because of his vast experience as a statesman and veteran of many presidential contests since 1993.
While welcoming the PDP candidate to the race, Tinubu added that the coming election should be about issues that will improve the quality of life of Nigerians; bring peace, progress, and political stability and solve myriad of sociopolitical challenges and insecurity currently facing the country.
“I welcome the victory of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the just concluded primary. I look forward to squaring up with him as a worthy opponent in the coming election. I have known the former Vice President as a formidable politician and a patriot who believes in the unity and progress of our dear country.
“ As we move further into the election season, I charge the PDP presidential candidate and all political actors across Party lines that we should make this election season one that is devoid of bitterness, rancour, and strife.
“We should make our campaigns peaceful and issue-based. Election season should be a festival of ideas that will uplift our country and improve the living condition of all our people.
“Unfortunately for the PDP, its candidate will be burdened to explain why Nigerians should give it another opportunity, after squandering 16 years at the central government, without much to show”.
“Nigerians are yet to forget the national ruin and mismanagement of our country for 16 years by successive PDP administration and this bad memory will dog the campaign of the PDP Candidate”
“ Nevertheless, I once again congratulate our former Vice President for his victory in his party’s primary.
Meanwhile, a Socio-Cultural group, Yoruba Ronu has called on the ad-hoc delegates of the All Progressives Congress to vote massively for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the party’s flagbearer to guarantee the party’s winning the 2023 presidential election.
The Director of Communications of the group, Mr Steve Bayode, made this appeal during the visit of Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu to Akure, Ondo State capital, as part of his final lapse of consultations with delegates across the country.
Bayode said with the election of Asiwaju Tinubu by APC delegates during the party’s primary, Nigeria is on the threshold of greatness for guaranteed development of the nation’s economy and infrastructure gains beyond 2023.
It will be gratifying to note that the next level promised by the APC government is already unfolding, adding that the four years of Asiwaju presidency would engender massive development and service to the people.
“We are all expectant and we can see the next level unfolding. Our country is on the threshold of greatness because for the first time since our independence, we would have successive administrations of a progressive and visionary government; a government of integrity, a government whose sole interest is the well-being of Nigeria and Nigerians”.
Steve Bayode, while canvassing for Asiwaju Tinubu, posited, that APC delegates are lucky to be here at this time; in this great party, in a time when our country is hoping to be led by a selfless individual who has the progress and prosperity of our people as his major objective, we are here, he said, as a witness to the success story of APC because Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been a very key part of this story.
He called on the APC ad-hoc delegates across the 36 states and Abuja to make history by unveiling the dawn of a greater nation through their preference for Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu in the party’s presidential primary; to not only elect him as the party’s flag bearer but to celebrate the incoming dawn in Nigeria; to celebrate the next level in the party where every party men and women will be served and given what is due to them.
Bayode, particularly, hailed Tinubu for his political dexterity, doggedness, undoubted courage, and political acumen, saying the attributes of the national leader played a key part in the electoral victory of APC at the Federal, National Assembly, Governorship, and State Assembly elections across the federation.
Asiwaju he said has worked assiduously over the years to put most politicians in office, it is only fair and logical to accord him say the opportunity to serve at the highest capacity for our nation being his long-time known political ambition to serve the nation as its next president.
While describing the presidential ambition of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as timely and perfectly conceived and apt for the moment, Prince Iyantan noted that it is instructing that it was coming at a time when Nigerians are eagerly looking forward to a revolutionary transformation in key sectors and sections of the country.
“Asiwaju Tinubu’s presidency is coming at a time when the APC has spread its political tentacles even, further in the country and is coming at a time when Nigerians are eagerly looking forward to the next level in progressive politics, economic growth, social welfare, and increased national security ensured,” he said.
“Asiwaju Tinubu is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. A person that does what he says; a pragmatic person. The servant-leader type headship that talks participates, and leads his followers to achieve expected group goals as demonstrated in the way he used his positions as Governor to impact lives, opened up Lagos State to further developments, and also ameliorated the sufferings of the downtrodden.