President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria needs a man like 2023 presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
According to a statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu, the president said this on Tuesday during the flag-off of the APC campaign at the Rwang Pam Township Stadium, Jos, Plateau State.
Buhari, who endorsed the Tinubu-Shettima presidential ticket, urged party members to march to deliver the candidates now that the party has decided.
But the President at a visit to the Gbong Gwom Jos, Da Jacob Gyang Buba reiterated his earlier commitment to ensuring that every vote counts.
“No election winner will be denied his mandate, irrespective of the party to which they belonged,” Buhari said apparently in response to the Campaign Director-General, Governor Simon Lalong who announced the intention to recreate the SDP-Moshood Abiola historic victory in 1993 in a campaign that took off in the same city 30 years ago.
That election victory was annulled by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd).
In handing the APC flag to the candidate at the tumultuous occasion, President Buhari said the country needed a man like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, urging the party faithful to campaign on issues and the abilities of the APC candidate and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima.
The President reiterated his earlier assurances that he would be at the forefront of APC’s campaign because of his belief in the party.
Buhari said it was only the APC that could steer Nigeria to fulfill its historic purpose, adding that working together with the leadership of the party, the campaign council, and its teeming supporters, the goal would be achieved.
Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu led other party stalwarts, including Tinubu, to call on Nigerians to vote for the APC ticket, describing it as the “surest way to the prosperity for the country”.