Tag: Bola Ahmed Tinubu

2023: Tinubu presents action plan to business community leaders in Lagos

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….Pledges to improve security, revive dead industries The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has pledged that his administration, if elected in 2023, would revive Nigeria’s comatose industries, among others. Tinubu stated this during his Town Hall meeting with the business community and Organised Private Sector yesterday, in Lagos. At the meeting, the APC presidential candidate laid out his action plan before the business leaders, while he noted that his administration will target double-digit gross domestic product (GDP) growth. In a statement by Tunde Rahman,…

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2023: Afenifere endorses Tinubu, -says APC candidate can fix Nigeria

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The leading pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, yesterday endorsed All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The decision was contained in an issued statement by the group after the visit of Tinubu to its leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, and other leaders in Akure, the Ondo State capital. The statement by the National Organising Secretary of Afenifere, Abagun Kole Omololu said leaders of the organisation from in the South-West, Kogi and Kwara States expressed confidence in the ability of Tinubu to lead the country out of the woods. Afenifere…

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2023: “Why Tinubu may win” – Fitch Ratings” – Fitch Ratings

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The international ratings firm, Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research, says the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, is most likely to win the forthcoming 2023 presidential election. In a report, the firm, a subsidiary of Fitch Ratings, an international credit rating organisation, however, said Tinubu’s victory would spur social instability and protests because of his party’s Muslim-Muslim ticket. “We maintain our view that the ruling party’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the candidate most likely to win the presidential election as a split opposition vote will…

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2023: “I’m running for presidency, not WWE wrestling” – Tinubu

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…Says present economic model needs major reform The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Bola Tinubu has said that he was running for the presidency and not World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) contest for 100/500 meters. The former Lagos State governor, who disclosed this at a dinner organised in his honour by the Kano Business Community, threw a jab at those querying his health status and denied his opponents’ allegations that he is sick. While speaking, Tinubu opined that he was smarter than his critics, noting that Nigerians’ vote…

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2023: “I will be at the forefront of Tinubu presidential campaign” – Buhari declares

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President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to be at the forefront of the campaign for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Bola Tinubu. Buhari made this pledge while inaugurating the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) and unveiling the Action Plan of the party’s presidential candidate yesterday, in Abuja. The unveiling comes as the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, vowed that the APC would crush its opponents in the 2023 general elections. Buhari said electing Tinubu would consolidate the achievements of his administration, arguing that doing otherwise…

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2023: “We won’t support Tinubu’s presidential aspiration, for national peace” – Afenifere

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The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has said that its decision not to support the presidential aspiration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is taken in the interest of national peace. Speaking on which television programme yesterday, the National Secretary of the organisation, Sola Ebiseni, said that Afenifere won’t support Tinubu because of justice and equity, stressing that if power comes to the South it must go to the South-East region which is the only Southern region that has not produced a president. “If…

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2023: “Atiku shouldn’t be holding rallies; he should endorse me” – Tinubu

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The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has asked his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, to step down and endorse him (Tinubu) ahead of the February 2023 presidential poll. Tinubu made his request yesterday, when he met with leaders from the northern part of the country, under the umbrella of Arewa Joint Committee, for an interactive session. The APC flagbearer asked Atiku to reciprocate the “gesture” he gave to him when he contested for the presidency in 2007 under the defunct Action Congress of…

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2023: “My plans for Nigeria is to build a buoyant, vibrant economy” – Tinubu

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The presidential standard bearer of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has assured of a buoyant and vibrant economy if elected. Tinubu gave the assurance at the 7th edition of the Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit (KadInvest 7.0), yesterday in Kaduna, according to an issued statement by his media aide, Tunde Rahman. He also promised that his administration will build an economy that will achieve double-digit growth. The APC presidential flag bearer hailed Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i for raising the bar in attracting investment to the…

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“Don’t run away in 2023 again” – Tinubu begs el-Rufa’i, gets immediate response 

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has appealed to Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufa’i not to leave Nigeria after the 2023 elections. The former Lagos governor made the appeal yesterday in Kaduna while addressing attendees at the seventh edition of KadInvest, an annual event organised by the State’s Investment Promotion Agency. Tinubu advised el-Rufa’i, a former FCT minister, not to “run away”, but to stay back and help to fix the country. “Nigeria needs thinkers and doers. I’m openly begging Nasir el-Rufa’i not to run away for (an) additional…

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2023: “It is North’s time to pay back Tinubu ” – Sen. Abu Ibrahim

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An All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, Sen. Abu Ibrahim, has said that 2023 is the time for the geo-political North to pay back the party’s presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, by supporting him. Ibrahim, from Katsina State, stated this on Thursday in Katsina, during his visit to the Campaign Office of the Katsina State APC gubernatorial candidate, Dr. Dikko Radda. According to him, the call is to complement the support Tinubu has been giving to candidates from the North. He recalled how Tinubu supported PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar when…

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