Say Adamu will work for their victory at the polls
BY BENEDICT NWACHUKWU, ABUJA
Ahead of the commencement of the campaigns for the 2023 general elections, the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday stormed the Buhari House National Secretariat of the party in Abuja. It was during the meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party wherein they expressed their confidence in the Adamu-led NWC to work for the party’s victory.
Asiwaju, while addressing the meeting said, “It is a great matter of joy and honour for us to be here, especially me in particular, to interact with the team that authorised my becoming the candidate of our party. I have not been able to sincerely thank you since that primary and we have hit the ground running, especially as the unveiling of our running mate was held outside this headquarters.
“To all the members in attendance that day, we want to say thank you. We have come together as a political party and we have taken progressivism as our doctrine. We have to be progressive in our thinking and our objective to serve the country.
“Yes, I admit that democracy is challenging, very hard and difficult a system to manage. We have seen challenges left and right outside the international sphere of politics, but we are determined to ensure that we democratise Nigeria fully and remain a beckon of democracy as the largest nation of the black race in the world.
“Thank you so much for the good job you have been doing. I sincerely thank you for the cooperation and collaboration particularly the chairman for various wisdom and interactions that we have been having together.”
The former governor of Lagos State denied news making the rounds that he is quarreling with Senator Adamu-led NWC and therefore going into the election as a divided house. “To the rumour manufacturers, I read in some papers about a disagreement between myself and the chairman and that was a very big lie. They didn’t know that we have come a long way. The big masquerade dance does not dance in the cage but in the market square.
“And that is what Adamu use to be, full of wisdom, we were governors together before God put us together on this project again. He is going to deliver as the Chairman of the party for me to become the president of Nigeria. And I am very confident of that.
“They can say whatever they want to say, throw all the jabs that they want, we are a party strongly determined to fulfill our dreams of turning Nigeria into a very progressive, highly developed, prosperous country.”
He revealed that they were at the national secretariat to discuss the campaign. “What we came here today to do is to discuss the campaign which is a few days away. When INEC will lift the ban, how do we work out the details, work together, implement all we have been saying, who are the members of the campaign council, who will not be members? I beg you not to be angry if you are left out because we are going to give you another responsibility. Not every member here can be a member of the presidential campaign council.
“On behalf of myself, the team of the presidential campaign council, let me commend the DG and Secretary of the campaign that have worked very hard to bring this report about the organization structure. If they (report) need panel beating, you do so. It is not a red card that we brought. We are going to bring brighter hope and confidence to the country.”
Asiwaju was accompanied by the Governor of Plateau State, Solomon Lalong, who doubles as the Director General for the Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima Campaign Counci, Gov Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and member of the Campaign Council and Hon James Faleke, Chairman of House Committee on Finance.