As TSG inaugurates States’ steering c’ttees
Pressure appears to gradually be mounting on the former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to publicly declare his ambition to contest for the presidency in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.
Although there are permutations in the political space that Tinubu is eyeing the APC presidential ticket to take over the mantle from President Muhammadu Buhari, he is yet to openly throw the hat into the ring.
But, the Tinubu Support Group, (TSG), an umbrella organisation housing an amalgam of sibling groups, has asked the 3rd Republic Senator to respond to the clamour by declaring his intention to contest for the President of the country.
Leaders of the group bared their minds at the inauguration of TSG State Steering Committees and unveiling of its Insignia in Abuja on Saturday.
In his address, TSG’s Director-General, Umar Mohammed, called on Tinubu to avail the nation of his enormous wealth of experience, outstanding and visionary leadership qualities, to contest the 2023 presidential election.
Mohammed said the inspiration to call on the APC chieftain is further derived from the tremendous impact the Tinubu phenomenon has created on the socio-political landscape of the nation.
In a keynote address, titled: Run, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, member of House of Representatives for Ikeja Federal Constituency of Lagos State, Abiodun Faleke, said in order to secure the votes of the majority in 2023, APC must present a candidate who knows where the shoe pinches the average Nigerian.
Faleke said such a candidate is the Asiwaju of Lagos, who, according to him, as the governor of the most difficult and most complex State in Nigeria put smiles on the faces of the poor by convincing the rich to join the government to chase poverty off from the streets.
