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  • Mainland residents give kudos to Tinubu, Tunji Bello

    A broad spectrum of residents of Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State has commended the APC leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who, according to them, played the most pivotal role to ensure a landslide victory for the party at the recently concluded general election, not only in Lagos State, but the nation as a whole.

    The mainlanders also expressed that one particular factor for which they will ever remain grateful to the APC leader was his achievement in producing a wonderful leader like Hon. Tunji Bello, Secretary to the Lagos State Government, whose pragmatic intervention in the affairs of Mainalnd Local Government Area has not only turned around the lots of the people for the better, but also contributed to the massive votes recorded in the area, during the gubernatorial and presidential elections.

    President of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, Alhaji Kareem Osoba, commended Hon. Tunji Bello for his mobilizational acumen, humility, empathy, listening ear and, above all, his immense philanthropic gesture to the people which contributed largely to the victory of the party in Lagos Mainland.

    Theatre artistes and members of CAMPAN Mainland chapter, Taiwo Hassan Ogogo, Sherifat Ilerika, Alhaji Abiodun Kakawa, Alhaji Saheed Yusuf (aka Saida Theatre), said that mainlanders owe Hon. Tunji Bello a huge debt of gratitude for the landslide victory recorded by the APC at the gubernatorial election.

    “As a strategist, Tunji Bello knows that as artistes, we have a large body of fans and followers. For this reason and particularly because of his natural spirit of generosity to everyone who crosses his path, he takes special interest in us. He has been taking active interest in our welfare. Therefore, when he appealed to us to support the APC because of the progressive cause it champions, we had no option than to listen to him. After all, one good turn deserves another.

    Hon. Oyedeji Tunde Osele, National Secretary Video Club Owners’ Association of Nigeria, said: “Tunji Bello’s contribution in lifting the APC to an enviable height in Lagos Mainland is fantastic. He has done very well; he has proved himself to be a real master of the game. He indeed saved the day because prior to the elections, there had been lots of aggrieved members.

    President Association of Lagos State Indigenes, Mainland chapter, and also a chieftain of the APC, Alhaji Ganiyu Salako, said Tunji Bello inspired party members to mount an aggressive door-to-door campaign in the Mainland Local Government Area.

  • Tinubu seeks adequate treatment for them

    All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday urged the Lagos State government to ensure adequate treatment for the survivors of the collapsed building.

    Asiwaju Tinubu, who described the incident as tragic, also commiserated with the families .

    The former Lagos governor called on Lagosians to donate blood to the survivors.

    In a condolence message to the families of the victims, the APC leader said the pupils who died did not deserve to die the way they did. He prayed for the repose of the kids’ souls.

    He said the government must fast-track the demolition of any building that failed integrity test.

    A statement signed by Tunde Rahman, his Media Adviser, quoted Tinubu as saying: “The building collapse in Ita-Faji, Lagos Island on Wednesday is a tragic occurrence. I commiserate with the families of those kids who lost their precious lives.

    “They do not deserve to die the way they did. May God comfort their families and grant repose of the souls of those young ones. Government must now ensure adequate medical treatment for the rescued victims.

    “I appeal to Lagosians to voluntarily donate blood not only to victims who urgently require blood but also to improve our blood bank in the state.

    “While we await the inquiry into the circumstances that led to the incident, we must all support government’s intervention efforts.

    “The Lagos State Material Testing Laboratory for buildings must be strengthened and the officers must do their work.

    “Government’s laid down regulations on building construction and maintenance must be faithfully respected and enforced. To mobilise support for these regulations, Community Development Associations need to come to government’s aid.

    “If after the collapsed building had been found to be weak and marked for demolition, everybody had done what was required of them, perhaps this terrible incident would have been averted.

    “On its part, the government must fast-track demolition arrangements once a building is discovered to be weak and deserving of being pulled down to save lives.

    “Above all, we must all take appropriate lessons and learn from this sad incident.”

  • …He ‘s a worthy partner — Tinubu

    All Progressives Congress National Leader and former Lagos governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has congratulated Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on turning 62.

    He described Osinbajo as an erudite legal luminary and worthy partner with whom he worked along with other technocrats to lay a solid foundation for the Lagos that is the envy of others today.

    In a statement on Friday by his Media Adviser, Tunde Rahman, the former Lagos governor said as Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Osinbajo led Lagos to institute and win most of the important cases that changed the political landscape and advanced the course of restructuring and true federalism.

    He said: “Since I knew him, he has n’t changed one bit in brilliance, commitment to causes he believes in, selflessness and loyalty to the nation.  He remains an erudite legal luminary and worthy ally.

    “Together with Osinbajo and other technocrats we helped to lay a solid foundation for an egalitarian and prosperous Lagos that is blind to ethnicity and religion.

    “Most of the landmark cases Lagos won at the Supreme Court bore his imprint. He is a champion of restructuring and true federalism of sort because he used the instrumentality of the law to advance the course of restructuring.

    “One of such landmark cases won by Lagos is the one on creation of Local Governments where the Supreme Court held that the state had the power to create additional councils and complied with the extant constitutional provisions.

    “That judgment helped in expanding the centres of development which has changed the Lagos political landscape forever”.

    Asiwaju Tinubu commended the vice president for working harmoniously with President Muhammadu Buhari. He again congratulated the duo for winning re-election.

    While wishing Osinbajo continued good health, renewed vitality and many more years of meritorious services to the country, he congratulated Osinbajo’s wife, Dolapo, and other members of the family on the birthday.

     

  • Buhari’s victory an expression of Nigerian’s sovereign will, says Tinubu

    ALL Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday described the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari as a decision against returning to the dark past.

    To the former Lagos State governor, the President’s re-election is a historic step forward.

    In his congratulatory message on Buhari’s victory at the Saturday 23 presidential election, titled:”Nigerians made the right choice. The task ahead is hard, but Buhari is able”, the Co-Chairman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council said the President has what it takes to take Nigeria to loftier heights.

    The statement reads: “On Saturday, February 23, the Presidential Election was held. It was a fair and honest exercise that permitted the full expression of the sovereign will of the Nigerian people.

    “In a decisive manner, the electorate have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to serve a second term. You, the Nigerian people, have given him a clear, indisputable mandate to lead us for another four years.

    ”In re-electing President Buhari, you have shown that you believe Nigeria should move forward to its better future instead of returning to the mistaken ways of our past.

    “You have chosen victory over defeat, hope over despair, prosperity over poverty. You have elected the path toward a greater Nigeria instead of that toward our lesser selves.

    ”For this collective act of courage and enlightened optimism, we can do nothing but express our most profound gratitude and thanks to the millions of APC members and to all Nigerians for their patience, and their commitment to our democratic electoral process.

    ”This election represents a historic step forward. When history is being made, often its authors do not realise the larger dimensions and consequences of their actions because they tend to be somewhat blinded by the press of daily events.

    “Yet, I believe as the years unfold and the history of Nigeria is later written, future generations will look fondly on this moment as the time when Nigerians, in strong and clear accord, affirmed their belief in our nation’s greatness and in the path that President Buhari and the APC have taken to reach that greatness.

    ”With this election, Nigeria signals to the world our unalloyed embrace of democracy and our unflinching determination to perfect this democracy.

    “While this election was free and fair, we also must acknowledge the isolated incidents of violence. Nigerians were killed and injured during what otherwise was an exemplary democratic procession. Such things should never happen and do us no good.

    ”We must dedicate ourselves to the principle that elections are meant to better all of our lives and thus there is no reason why elections should result in the impairment of even a single life. Let us work even harder to ensure that the March governorship and state assembly elections be devoid of such unfortunate incidents.

    ”No doubt Nigeria has its challenges, but it stands undaunted as a nation. Nigeria is stronger today under the leadership of President Buhari who continues to lay the critical reforms that constitute the foundation for durable, broadly-shared economic development.

    ”President Buhari has marked progress against the terror of Boko Haram. In his second term, he will continue to install peace where there is unrest and violence and he will not cease in this task until Boko Haram and its evil brethren are no more.

    ”He will continue to battle corruption head on. Given the President’s fortitude and determination, I know corruption will lose this battle and receded from being a major factor in our public arena.

    ”This current leadership owes our youth and all Nigerians to build a political culture of civility, tolerance and equality.

    ”The tasks before us are hard. We dare not underestimate the challenges that await, but the rewards that beckon are profound. The people of Nigeria are industrious and brave. The ground beneath us is fecund and it is ours. Our plans are visionary and bold. Our goals are just. And the president you have re-elected is honest and true.

    ”The confidence I have in this positive confluence of leadership, people, resources and ideas is an unwavering but also a glad and comforting thing. If we put ourselves to it, there is nothing that another nation has done for itself that we cannot achieve for ourselves.

    ”There is no aspect of national greatness and achievement that lies beyond our reach. Thus, we should look forward to the next four years with hearts filled with hope and hands ready to work.

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    “Only God can create the Promised Land. Yet, with God’s help, we endeavour to make of Nigeria a land of greater promise and prosperity for all her children.

    ”With President Buhari at the helm for four more years, I know we can achieve this. Congratulations to President Buhari on your re-election.

    ”Congratulations to the APC for the fine showing across all the February 23 elections. More importantly, congratulations to the Nigerian people for the wisdom and courage shown in deciding that the best of Nigeria still resides in our future and that President Buhari is the man you best trust to lead us into that future. Posterity shall reward you for what you established on Election Day.

    ”Today the sun shines brighter on Nigeria. If we work hard, tomorrow we shall be able to say the same thing.”

  • Buhari didn’t order Nigerians to be shot summarily, says Tinubu

    All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday cautioned against misinterpreting President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks on ballot box snatchers.

    Asiwaju Tinubu said the President never ordered security agencies to shoot Nigerians summarily.

    The President was quoted as saying that ballot box snatchers would not live to tell their stories once caught in the act.

    Buhari spoke at the APC’s emergency National Caucus meeting in Abuja yesterday.

    Tinubu told reporters after the meeting that the President was misinterpreted.

    He said Buhari only reinforced his stand that ballot box snatcher will be doing so at the risk of their lives.

    Tinubu said: “I was in that meeting; the President was just reinforcing the fact that if you are out there snatching ballot boxes and causing destruction, you are at risk of your own life.

    “Whatever happens to you; no president will give an order that his own citizens should be shot summarily. No! No! It’s okay; emotions are running high these days. Any individual, including myself, can be misinterpreted.

    “These are not his words; he is a law-abiding person and he understands categorically and clearly what the rule of law is and the lives of individual citizens that he is in that office to protect.

    “Now, let me run this… he has been fighting Boko Haram insurgents, kidnappers and all these before this election. Did you ever hear him asking them to be shot and executed summarily?

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    “If he has gone through that in the last five years, please give the benefit of the doubt. By law, we should continue to energise our people; it depends on our resources. Because the Electoral Act allows us to continue to campaign and asks us to stop campaigning only 24 hours before the actual election; and once INEC changed the election date to February 23, it has given us the opening to campaign and energise our people. If you have a garden and you don’t nourish it with water, the grass will remain dormant. We don’t want our party to remain dormant.

    “This is ability of leadership to convert adversity to opportunity and prosperity and that’s it; that’s what we must do.”

    On whether the shift of the poll will affect INEC’s credibility, Tinubu said: “It depends on how it is handled and the new process; how the process is managed. You can convert what appears a crisis, a situation of adversity, to an opportunity and progress.

    “The INEC, under the law, is empowered to postpone, cancel and do whatever is necessary to ensure free and fair election. No party other INEC has this power. We can express our anger and disappointment, but no party can reverse what has been done. So, we are ready for February 23.”

  • Buhari didn’t order Nigerians to be shot summarily – Tinubu

    The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday said President Muhammadu Buhari never ordered security agencies to shoot Nigerians summarily.

    Speaking with journalists in Abuja at the end of the APC caucus meeting, he said the President was misinterpreted.

    He said that the President at the meeting only reinforced that those involved in ballot box snatching will be doing it at the risk of their lives.

    According to him: “I was in that meeting; the president was just reinforcing the fact that if you are out there snatching ballot boxes and causing destruction, you are at risk of your own life.

    “Whatever happens to you; No President will give an order that his own citizens should be shot summarily, No! No, its okay, emotions are running high these days. Any individual including myself can be misinterpreted.

    “These are not his words; he is a law abiding person and he understands categorically and clearly what rule of law is and the lives of individual citizens that he is in that office to protect.

    “Now, let me run this; he has been fighting Boko Haram, kidnappers and all these before this election. Did you hear him asking them to be shot and executed summarily?”

    On the resumption of campaigns by political parties, the former Lagos governor said: “By law we should continue to energise our people; it depends on our resources.

    “Because the Electoral Act allows us to do that and ask led us to stop campaigning only 24 hours before the actual election. And once you changed the date to Feb. 23, you have given us the opening to campaign and energise.

    “If you a garden and you don’t nourish with water, the grass will remain dormant; we don’t want our party to remain dormant.

    “This is ability of leadership to convert adversity to opportunity and prosperity and that’s it; that’s what we must do.”

    Asked if the postponement has cast doubt on the credibility of INEC, he said: “It depends on how it is handled and the process. How the process is managed; you can convert a crisis–a situation of adversity to an opportunity and progress.

    “The INEC, under the law, they are empowered to postpone, cancel and do whatever is necessary to ensure free and fair election. No party other the anger, the disappointment, no party can reverse that. So, we are ready for Feb. 23.”

  • Buhari, Osinbajo, Tinubu, others meet in Abuja

    President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday met in Abuja in the party’s caucus meeting.

    The meeting started at the APC National Secretariat around 11.30am when the President arrived.

    Those in attendance included the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole.

    State governors at the meeting included that of Zamfara, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Jigawa, Borno, Bauchi, Kebbi, Niger, Lagos and Kaduna state.

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    Also in attendance were the Senate leader, Ahmad Lawan, senators, Secretary to the Government of the Federation(SGF), Boss Mustapha, ministers, among others.

    Discussions at the meeting will not be unconnected with the issues affecting the party, including the postponement of the general elections by a week.

  • Tinubu seeks three million votes for Buhari in Lagos

    •Urges party members to ensure APC’s victory

    All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday urged members of the ruling party to work hard to deliver at least three million votes for President Muhammadu Buhari in tomorrow’s poll.

    Tinubu gave the challenge at a parley with party members and supporters at a stakeholders meeting in Ikeja.

    The party leader, who spoke mainly in Yoruba, said the APC in the state could not afford not to deliver on the promise of overwhelming votes for the President.

    Tinubu said the President trusted in him and party members to win resoundingly in the state, urging party faithful to do their best to meet and exceed expectations.

    Reiterating his commitment to Buhari’s re-election, the party chieftain said he would give his all to ensure Buhari’s victory.

    He said: “I want you our party members to go all out and vote massively for President Muhammadu Buhari.

    “You must deliver at least three million votes or more to the president to show that the whole state is firmly for him.

    “I have been made the co-Chairman of the APC presidential campaign committee because of the trust the President reposed in me and party members to always.

    “We should justify that trust and give our best for Buhari and Osinbajo on Saturday”,he said.

    Tinubu urged party members to mobilise other members and residents within their neighbourhoods to vote for the President.

    He challenged all members to ensure that APC wins in all the polling units across all the wards.

    The party leader said election co-ordinators had been appointed to mobilise votes for APC across the state, and urged them to deliver on the assignment.

    Tinubu said party executive members were automatic co-ordinators in their respective areas, urging them to get results.

    He promised that all members would be compensated based on the results they delivered in their respective areas.

    Tinubu urged members to shun electoral malpractices as the party was not known for such.

    He also urged party members to eschew all acts of violence  but conduct themselves peacefully ,during, before and after the election.

    He expressed confidence that the president would not only emerge victorious in the election, but would win resoundingly.

    Tinubu said the governorship candidate of the party in the state, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, would take the state to greater heights and urged residents to vote massively for him on March 2.

    Tinubu urged the APC members to stand with Sanwo-Olu the same way they supported him during the last primaries.

    The party leader said issues concerning the primaries had been resolved, promising all those who could not get tickets would be compensated with appointments.

    Tinubu commended the state Deputy Governor, Mrs. Idiat Adebule for her loyalty to the party, saying that attribute was expected of every party man.

    The party leader said the deputy governor stood with the party when it mattered, urging women in the party to follow her example.

    He said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) represents ineptitude and urged Nigerians to reject the party at the polls.

    Speaking, Sanwo-Olu said the APC was passionate and committed about a better and greater Nigeria and Lagos.

    He urged residents to vote massively for Buhari on Saturday and him on March 2 for the delivery of more democratic dividends.

    Former Minister of State for Defence Musiliu Obanikoro, former Lagos Transportation Commissioner Kayode Opeifa and Southwest Women Leader of the party, Mrs Kemi Nelson were some of the prominent party personalities at the meeting.

    Also at the meeting were: members of the party’s Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), including Dr. Abayomi Finnih and Alhaji Tajudeen Olusi.

  • Recognise Tinubu’s visionary leadership, Oluwo tells Yoruba

    The Oluwo of Iwo land, Oba Abdul-Rasheed Adewale Akanbi, Telu I, has urged the Yoruba to recognise the visionary leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

    The Oluwo stated this while hosting Vice-President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo at his palace.

    The frontline monarch also advised the Yoruba to support Asiwaju Tinubu “because he means well for the race”.

    Oba Akanbi noted that the APC stalwart had largely demonstrated the capacity to sustain legacies of the former leader of the Yoruba and the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, adding that his leadership style will take the Southwest very far.

    Describing Asiwaju Tinubu as the envy of other geo-political zones, the Oluwo urged the Yoruba to rally support for his leadership and work with him in his “strategic planning to position the race for future prospects and challenges”.

    He added that Asiwaju Tinubu had made the Southwest competitive.

    Oba Akanbi noted that the APC stalwart is an incarnate of Pa Awolowo because he has achieved the political feat of the late sage by building world-class human and political structures that can stand the test of time.

    The Oluwo acknowledged the bridge-building capacity of the APC National Leader, noting that for the first time in the history of Nigeria, he led the Southwest to achieve a political alliance with the North and is currently enjoying substantial goodwill with the Southsouth and the Southeast.

    He said: “Asiwaju Tinubu is an all-season leader of note who deserves the support of all true Yoruba persons. His contribution to the survival of Nigeria and reconstruction of a united and peaceful nation is unequalled.

    “We must not miss the opportunity the leadership of Asiwaju Tinubu has provided for the Yoruba. So, I will advise that we don’t fritter away this great privilege. We should all open our eyes and minds to see the tremendous opportunities and respects the Southwest lately enjoys because of the visionary, courageous and innovative and all-inclusive leadership style of Asiwaju Tinubu and his team.

    “Asiwaju Tinubu has made many things out of nothing. He built human structures across board. Human development is his primary asset. Vice-President, ministers, governors, chief executive officers of agencies and corporations, captains of industry, doctors, lawyers, business magnates, traditional rulers, among others, are products of Asiwaju Tinubu.

    “All this was achieved by him to the glory of God. You don’t become a leader by amassing wealth but by building and making better leaders out of your associates. He is enigmatic and I profess that no darkness will be able to hold down his vision for the Yoruba race.”

  • We can’t return to Egypt again, Tinubu tells PDP

    …. says Saraki sold APC mandate for pot of pottage

     

    Former Lagos state governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that Nigerians must not allow the nation to return to part of destruction and retrogression which the People Democratic Party (PDP) led government subjected it to for 16 years but aim to move forward in building a nation that every citizen will be proud of.

    Tinubu who spoke at a National, consultative forum organised by the National Committee of Buhari Support Groups in Abuja accused the Atiku Campaign Organisation and the People Democratic Party of trying to blackmail the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Police with the accusation of plots to rig the 2019 elections because “they knew that they will not win”.

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    He also accused Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki of using the mandate of the APC to negotiate and give lifeline to the opposition, saying “he left the PDP, joined us, got elected, got our mandate, our majority and sold it for a pot of pottage. God is honest, Saraki is not”.

    The former Lagos state governor also recalled how the rigging machineries of the PDP almost denied him his re-election in 2003 when INEC published what he described as fake results of the governorship election in Lagos state on its website, saying it took the then Resident Electoral Commissioner’s courage to insist that what was published was not the real results for his election to be validated.

    He said: “Come February, we will re-elect Buhari. It is not easy to put together a National Committee, but we are in the same family. As free minded people, you are all free to be doing other things this morning, but you are here because you have the vision and the determination that Nigeria must continue the foundation and the progress of the future.

    “Working together to re-elect Buhari is a task that must be achieved. Why are they complaining? Buhari is too busy to exchange words with them because he is building foundation of a prosperous Nigeria that will magnify the economy and provide employment for everyone regardless of the status in the society.

    “A fervent man like him will not have time for the nonsense being thrown at him. I give you one message for them and there will be many such messages. Their candidate who is supposed to beat Buhari has been in our party and many other parties. He has more party members to build a house.

    “All you have to do is to go out there and tell him that a house built on cards will be collapsed with a single stroke of broom. He said they are reformed, but reformed what? Reformed PDP. No. Tell them as you go out that we accept the admission of guilty that they were vagabond before and now being reformed.

    “But they have not served enough probation. You can only be reformed if you are an ex-convict, a drug addict or a political prostitute. It is because Buhari has not temperament and no tolerance for corruption, he is vigorously ridding the nation of blemish and looting, a bad reputation.

    “I can see them celebrating the visa. What a shame? Yet you want to lead this country with the most vibrant economy in Africa? Why should we allow them?

    They ran this country from 1999 till 2015. They were planning for 60 years of doing nothing, lack of direction and concern for the citizens.

    “Are we still in this nation where visionary leadership is required? If yes, then they are not competent and not qualified to be leading Nigeria again and say they want to come back to government. If they left our schools in such dilapidated condition, left out hospitals without Medicare, they don’t deserve to come back.

    “They say we should not talk about their past anymore because they are ashamed of it, but we cannot go without talking about it because a nation has no history if there are no reference. If you give me an application for Employment which is the application of Atiku Abubakar, I must look at what you have done before, you experience.

    “We have to look at Halliburton and why they left Nigeria. Go and ask those questions. They spent 16 billion dollars of NEPA money and what they give us is darkness and when they knew that we were kicking them out, they shared the company through irregularities called privatization which I called personalization of the wealth of Nigeria.

    “We won’t allow that to happen again and I will recommend that we Campaign on that. We should find a way to technically dissolve those companies they shared among themselves. There is no way you can industrialize a nation without providing electricity.

    “So many industries in Kaduna, Ikeja and other parts of the country. What were they doing for 16 years? That is why we believe that President Buhari is the best person to lead us and got him elected in 2015.

    “They said he will die, but he did not die and is back hale and healthy and when they saw seriousness on his part, they now said he was cloned. That is because they know so much about forgery. I am glad he told them he is real. They exist to lie.

    “Take their new found Jehovah Witness, former President Obasanjo. After they disgraced the office of the President, fighting in public and abusing each other, telling us how they stole money and dancing naked in the market square, Obasanjo said he has spoken to God never to allow Atiku to become President.

    “Which God is he now talking to, to say Atiku should be President? I believe he is not telling the truth and not to the God we know. He is just talking to himself.

    We have sacrificed too much under the PDP and we cannot go back.

    “People must ask you why you belong to this support group. Tell them that you are members of a very committed rescue mission that started in 2015. I remember how things were. So, remind them of what happened because they can’t shut us up.

    “They had the best opportunity for prosperity, but they are now complaining. They were there for 16 years and never added one barrel capacity to the refineries in Nigeria. They didn’t even pay counterpart funding for our rail, electricity and we cannot industrialist a nation without the power source.

    “I stand before you as a very proud individual. When I introduced Independent power generation to fire the industries at Ikeja industrial estate, they killed it because there was bribe under the table.

    “Imagine what Buhari is doing today in rail and in feeding our children which creates opportunity for the farmers, it creates small scale business for those cooking the food and a lot of people involved are doing better and we are battling poverty with the best weapon which is education.

    “They are busy changing parties and that is why they are confused. Atiku is now PDP Aladdin. He is going to create 14 million jobs and I say how? They will turn Atlantic into fuel to crash the prices without the refineries working and the population is expanding and people must move around. He just talks of crashing the prices of fuel. They are lying again because a leopard cannot change its skin.

    “They had 16 billion of unprecedented resources and yet, they didn’t bring power to Nigeria. They invested that money in their personal industries. They bought turbines from General Electric and did it add one pipe line to bring gas to the plant.

    “They can say anything now about Buhari. I agree with Okonjo Iweala that it is difficult to fight corruption. The agents of destruction are there fighting us, but we will win with strong determination.

    “Don’t let them sweep things under the carpet that when we came in as a government, before then they had too much resources in their hands, but Buhari funded states to pay salaries. In that period, 27 states were unable to pay salaries as at May 2015. The states and local economy would have collapsed long time ago.

    “If PDP members truly love this country, those should humbly step aside and allow Buhari continue with the work of addressing the ills in our nation. However, since they seem to obstruct and remain focus as applicants, we say no job for them.

    “No matter what they say, don’t listen to them, don’t kind them. What they want is to continue to distract with the talk of rigging because they know that they are losing. They want to blackmail INEC and the police. I remember my own election for my second term.

    “On the website of INEC, they announced a funny result, but a woman of great character who was the State Resident Electoral Commissioner said no, the result she got from the field are the valid results and not the fake ones published and upheld our election. They know they cannot win.

    “That is why all the noise from either Saraki, a man who used our mandate to negotiate and give lifeline to the opposition. Leadership is about character. How can he now ask us to vote for PDP. he left the PDP, joined us, got elected, got our mandate, our majority and sold it for a lot of portage. God is honest, Saraki is not.

    “They talk about farmers and herders clashes. If they are honest, they should know that it also happened during their time, but they have no way of thinking; they have no capacity to convert tragedy into economic prosperity. We have the capacity in this country to do irrigation and utilize our water resources, to create pastures and ranches so that we can convert those miseries, that tragedy to opportunity for our people. Livestock is economy.

    “It is not about intellectual talent alone. There are so many unrewarded talents across the world. It is about character, determination, the love of a country and our commitment to nation building. That is what PDP is opposed to and APC is determined to continue as a progressive entity and the man to lead the nation on that part is President Buhari. Tell Nigerians that after Moses crossed the Red Sea, he is not going to return to Egypt.”