Tinubu, APC Gov, NASS candidates map out winning strategies

• Published date: 15 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has charged all candidates of the party not to fail members who gave them tickets at the general elections.

He gave this charge at a crucial meeting with all the party's governorship, Senatorial and House of Representatives candidates in the general elections.

Tinubu, who said he had been eager to meet with the party's candidates, told them Nigerians are expecting a new lease of life.

The presidential front-runner said, 'I am pleased to meet with you today because in you I see our party's hope and path to success. In you, I see the hope of historic national progress as well.

'As so often in life, victory is not a cause for rest or celebration. It is a call to a greater challenge and harder toil. Thus, you all have won the primaries but now must climb the higher mountain called the general elections.

'We formed the APC, not just to be another political party. We formed it as a champion of the people to rescue democracy from the ravages of the PDP who boasted of ruling the nation for 60 years.

'We formed this party to rescue the people and their collective prosperity from the avarice and greed of an elite that will devour the nation's God-given endowment if we allow such people back into power. As those flying our party's flag, we carry a heavy burden on our shoulders.

'We have the mandate to deliver the party to victory so that we may protect Nigeria from those who would devour all of its fruits.

'The party has placed its trust in us. Democratic victory in the coming elections is a task we must accomplish.'

The APC standard bearer urged the party's candidates to go to the polls starting from the presidential and national assembly elections on February 25 to the governorship and state assembly elections on March 11 with a united front.

According to him, everyone must collectively work for the party's victory in all elections to ensure that the party's project of growth and...