2023: Tinubu supporters storm Abuja, urges him to declare for presidency

Thousands of Nigerians under the banner of Tinubu Support Group including Senators, Reps members and other notable politicians across Nigeria on Saturday mounted pressure on the former Lagos state governor and national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to make public his intention to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.

At the unveiling of Asiwaju’s legacies and inauguration of states’ steering committee, the group said having reflected on Tinubu’s performances in difference offices, they are calling on him to come out and govern Nigeria as President.

Although the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has not allowed political campaigns for 2023 elections but Tinubu’s supporters under the aegis of Tinubu Support Group (TSG) serving as umbrella organisation housing other groups, said Asiwaju’s experiences both in public and private were enough to motivate Nigerians.

Addressing the gathering, TSG’s Director General, Arc. Umar Ibrahim, said, “We therefore call on Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to avail the nation of his enormous wealth of experience, outstanding and visionary leadership qualities, to contest the 2023 Presidential Election.

“In our search for credible leadership to consolidate and improve on the enormous gains of the Buhari administration in the next dispensation, we have painstakingly and consciously undertaken to observe, study and critically analyze the challenges confronting the nation as well as our immense resources potentials and strength.

“We have also reflected deeply on the outstanding leadership qualities, personal attributes and antecedents of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a man with the attributes of hard work, extensive vision, rich experience and striking intelligence, networks of vital contacts, sense of equity, justice and fairness with high regard for the rule of law.

“Tinubu is a bridge builder across regional, ethnic and religious lines that is capable of uniting the country We have identified him as an exceptional manager of resources and a seasoned administrator and we are convinced that the nation needs him in the next dispensation.

“We have no doubt that he has the capacity and the political will to institute a new concept of governance and a new agenda of sustainable development, to provide effective leadership, capable of providing solutions to the numerous challenges confronting the nation.

“We have identified Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as a patriot in words, in action, and in deed, a leading light among the people, a detribalized strategic thinker, with national outlook and balanced judgment, an exceptional manager of resources, a quintessential and visionary leader, an accomplished politician and a seasoned administrator, a statesman in spirit and in physique, whose strides in the nation’s political landscape remain outstanding, as the man the nation needs in the next dispensation.”

In his speech, a member representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, Hon. James Faleke, described Asiwaju Tinubu as the maker of modem Lagos, “a miraculous story that has become part of our history.

“The cast is still alive and even the landscape can tell the stories of its transformation from 1999 to 2007. We all witnessed how a poor government, Struggling to manage N600 million monthly revenue in 1999 was tumed to a prosperous goverment making N3Sbiilion monthly today, thanks to the doggedness and financial wizardry of an incurable optimist and imaginative strategist.

“We have discovered a man who is ready to sacrifice all he has for his fatherland. A man who had comfortable control of the entire South-west and six solid governors yet threw everything into the alliance with President Muhammadu Buhari with 12million votes but with one governor to build a new Pan – Nigerian Party of his dream. Aman who ran a state that gave opportunities to citizens for appointive and elective positions on merit, without regard for their religion, ethnicity or class.

“This is a man who left office in 2007 yet remains popular till today because he is focused, consistent and persistent. He has been the central figure in Nigerian politics.”

Hon. Faleke, however called on Tinubu not to waste time any longer in declaring his intention to become the next President.

“Therefore, on behalf of the millions of supporters of Tinubu Support Group, we are calling on our National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to formally announce his presidential aspiration.”