Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aswj Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday addressed Chatham House in London ahead of Nigerias presidential election in February next year.
Tinubu, who has been addressing various strategic groups in Nigeria at town hall meetings, travelled to the United Kingdom weekend to share his campaign plans at Chatham House – a globally admired and respected platform for intellectual engagement on different issues of contemporary interest to people around the world.
Tinubu, in his speech, emphasised Nigerias role in Africa as a big brother and a beacon of hope to the continent and the ECOWAS sub-region through now entrenched democratic ideals, having run an unbroken democracy for over two decades. He said when he becomes Nigerias president, his administration will continue to provide quality leadership to the sub-region, to ensure democratic ideals reign in nations of the ECOWAS region.
The APC presidential candidate, in his address, vowed that as President, Nigeria will epitomise the values of democracy during elections anywhere in Africa, by ensuring that democratic ideals are followed and all forms of electoral violence will be rejected, allowing only the will of the people to prevail.
Tinubu promised to tackle the security situation head on, so that Nigeria can also effectively provide security support for its neighbouring nations.
The former Lagos State governor reiterated that effective energy generation and distribution will help build the economy of the nation, promising to improve the framework already in place to boost the generation and distribution of energy across the country. He further said, We have privatised power distribution in Nigeria and generation to a certain degree. What we need to do, going forward, is to improve the enabling environment and further reform the legal and regulatory framework to attract more private investments in the sector as we have experienced in the telecom industry.
He also said the nation under his watch will place emphasis on the use of technology to improve the agricultural sector for better production and contribution to the nations economy.
The Aswj promised to engage the private sector to better drive economic development across the country. It was the second time the APC candidate delivered a speech at the forum, having first done it in 2011.
He was accompanied to the event, where he spoke on Nigerias 2023 elections: Security and economic development and its foreign policy imperatives, by key party and campaign council leaders, which include: Governors Nasir el-Rufa’i, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Mohammed Abubakar Badaru; Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Deputy Director-General of Campaign Council, Hadiza Bala Usman, and former Governor Kayode Fayemi, among others.
