2023: Former PDP Leaders Mobilise For Tinubu

By GWG Staff

Loyalists of the All Progressives Congress, APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu led by some former members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have formally set up a campaign group to project the former Lagos State governor for the 2023 presidential election.

The campaign group styled as ‘The South-West Agenda,” SWAGA is the brain of some of the leading Yoruba politicians from across the Southwest.

Among those present at the formal inauguration of the group on Tuesday were former minister of state for defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and former minister of state works, Senator Dayo Adyeye. Remarkably, both men were at several times staunch loyalists of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Both men would be remembered for their leading role in enthroning Ayodele Fayose as governor for the second time in 2014 on the platform of the PDP.

Also present at Tuesday’s event at the Mauve 21 Event Centre were Senator Adesoji Akanbi, representing Oyo South Senatorial District; former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikufuroji, former  House of Representatives member, Otunba Abayomi Ogunnusi among others.

Speaking on the motif of the group, Adeyeye while lauding the qualities of Tinubu said:

“We are asking him to come out and we are asking the entire people of the South-West to rally round him to make him the next president of Nigeria. Every geo-political zone in the South has the right to produce a candidate, but the one that work harder would emerge. Don’t forget, all the citizens of Nigeria will vote to choose the next president.”

Ikuforiji on his part said, “In Asiwaju, you have a very great democrat. How much of a visionary leader he is; those who knew Lagos before 1999 would recall for instance that at Oshodi, where there are three lanes, refuse covered two lanes. Today, Lagos is a source of pride to all Nigeria.

“There is no state in the entire Nigeria that can compete with Lagos. If you take Lagos out of Nigeria, Lagos becomes the fifth largest economy in Africa. He brought in politicians as well as technocrats. That has resulted to the country we have today. This is not about Bola Tinubu, it is about how Nigeria could be well.”

Delegates from other states in the Southwest similarly gave testimonies of the sagacity of the former governor of Lagos State which they said were needed to steer the affairs of the country.

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