A former General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG), Chief Frank Kokori, has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is the only living politician capable of breaking the cabal holding Nigeria down.
Kokori, an APC elder in Delta State, while speaking with newsmen yesterday in his residence in the Ethiope-East local government area of the State, applauded Tinubu’s emergence as the party’s flagbearer for the 2023 general election, saying, “I don’t think there’s a better candidate than Tinubu who can take on the cabal and rescue Nigeria finally”.
The renowned labour activist, however, warned Tinubu, a Muslim, not to succumb to pressures from powerful party men to pick another Muslim as running mate, noting that such a decision would be insensitive and detrimental to national coherence and unity.
In this regard, he specifically appealed to the Northern leaders and governors to be instrumental to Tinubu’s easy victory come the 2023 poll, by eschewing a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Kokori lamented that “the cabal has been the cause of the socio-economic woes bedevilling the country in the past seven years”, just as he noted with concern that “the cabal has been in charge of this country all the years of Buhari’s rule”.
According to him, “even though President Buhari is a good man, he allowed persons with self-serving interests around him to derail his focus”.
Kokori, while commenting on the health status of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, submitted that “there is no cause for alarm, in as much as a terminal ailment is out of the equation”.
Kokori, however, admonished that since Nigeria has been fair to Tinubu, he should reciprocate by lifting Nigeria from the doldrums.
