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2023 Presidency: Tinubu Already Has 12 Million Votes In The Bag – SWAGA
The SouthWest Agenda 2023 group has stated that the Nationwide Chief of All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, already has 12 million votes within the bag forward of the 2023 presidential election.
The chairman of the pro-Tinubu group, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, made this recognized on Friday as a visitor on Channels TV’s ‘Politics Right this moment’ programme monitored by The PUNCH.
Although Tinubu has but to declare his intention to contest any workplace in 2023, there have been experiences and veiled indications that he could be within the exalted seat.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that the political motion mobilising help for Tinubu to contest the 2023 presidential election was inaugurated in Lagos on Thursday by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and different occasion chieftains.
Tinubu, who celebrated his 69th birthday in March 2021 and command an arguably giant following of political loyalists, has been reported to nurse presidential ambition in 2023, at the same time as political debates get intense for a Southern President after the eight-year regime of the incumbent, Main Basic Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who’s from Katsina State, North-West Nigeria.
Talking on the tv programme on Friday, Adeyeye, a former Minister of State for Works and Housing, boasted that similar to Buhari who raked 12 million votes from the North earlier than the 2015 elections, Tinubu additionally has no less than 12 million votes from the South-West.
He stated conventional rulers within the South-West are additionally in help of Tinubu’s 2023 presidential bid.
The SWAGA chairman, nevertheless, stated his group was not commissioned by Tinubu however they’re prodding the ex-Lagos governor to run for President in 2023.
Adeyeye stated, “When this motion began, we wished our candidate who some individuals notably in Abuja and a few circles have been saying don’t have any residence base; he’s not fashionable and all that. We wished to show to them that the person may be very acceptable, not solely in his residence base however all through the nation.
“We would like all people within the South-West to rally round this man and help him and up to now we have now been very profitable.
“We’ve moved around the palaces to see most of our prime conventional rulers who’ve endorsed him.
“Charity begins at residence; we wished to solidify the Homebase. As soon as the house base is solidified, I consider different Nigerians, specific in our occasion, will really feel extra snug to discipline this candidate, figuring out that he can win the election for them.”
Talking on the possibilities of Tinubu within the 2023 elections, the APC chieftain stated, “Don’t neglect that one of many promoting factors for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 was that he already had 12 million votes in his pocket (in earlier elections) notably within the North-West and North-East. So, it was straightforward with help from a number of different locations for him to win the presidency.
“We’re additionally saying that come 2023, the person we’re projecting already has no less than 12 to 13 million votes in his pocket and so it will likely be straightforward.”
Requested how certain he was about his statistics, Adeyeye stated, “I’m giving it (determine) primarily based on what I’ve seen on floor having to transverse the size and breadth of the South-West and having seen individuals from political events saying that on the subject of the problem of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, they’ll shed their partisan toga and embrace him and vote for him. I’ve seen that within the palaces of the Obas, amongst artisans and market girls.
“In relation to the problem of the Presidency in 2023, all of those individuals in unison, they’ll shed each variations and vote for this man.
“The votes within the South-West is greater than 20 million votes. I’m solely saying 12 to 13 million votes is already assured and I say it with all sense of duty with out worry of contradiction that these 12 to 13 votes are already within the bag.”
