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We Are Ready To Support Tinubu, Regardless Of Running Mate- Zonal Secretary

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3 years ago

Jun 18, 2022.

A.A.S Opeyemi

We’ll support Tinubu irrespective of running mate, APC zonal secretary
…nobody can carry a pass to the market on the basis of Muslim-Muslim or Christian-Christian tickets for Asiwaju or any other Presidential candidate and get food items free

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Dr. Blessing Agbomhere, the South-South Zonal Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, has stated that the party’s presidential candidate, Senator Bola Tinubu, will be supported regardless of who he selects as his running mate.

Agbomhere, who is also the Chairman of the Forum of APC Organising Secretaries, said the situation in which leaders of various political and religious groups are exerting pressure to influence the choice of one of their own does not bode well for the country’s democracy.

In a statement released on Saturday, the party chieftain argued that Tinubu had the constitutional right to choose his running mate, regardless of religious affiliation.

He asked Nigerians to allow Tinubu to pick anybody he wants as his running mate.

Agbomhere went on to say that what Nigerians should be concerned with is the candidate and political party that would bring the country’s desired development, not whether Tinubu will run for president on a Muslim-Muslim, Christian-Christian, or any other religious faith combination.

He said: “All we need to do is to focus on winning the 2023 presidential election as a party and our victory will depend on our ability to carry Nigerians along.

“We cannot afford to lose focus by being distracted about who Tinubu may decide to choose as his running mate.

“The solution to the challenges confronting Nigeria does not rest on whether the running mate to Tinubu is Christian or Muslim.

“Nigerians are not interested in who becomes running mate to any of the presidential candidates. What they need is good governance that would guarantee security, stable polity and social economic progress.

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“Nobody can carry a pass to the market on the basis of Muslim-Muslim or Christian-Christian tickets for Asiwaju or any other Presidential candidate and get food items free. They only need a ticket that would guarantee the availability of products and economic empowerment to meet their needs.”

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