Tinubu/Shettima candidacy: Southwest Governors’ wives storm Lagos, kick off women support campaign
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By Moses Adeniyi
First Ladies of Southwest States on Wednesday stormed Lagos to flag off the Tinubu/Shettima Women Presidential Campaign in the Southwest, rallying sup port for the APC presidential candidacy.
The wives of the Southwest Governors in company with top party women leaders of the APC, representative of Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, stormed the State to woo women in support of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima for the 2023 presidency.
At the rally, wife of APC Presidential candidate, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, said women should set aside the Muslim/Muslim ticket argument and vote massively for the APC presidential candidacy, stating that men may not be able to comprehend how God moves.
Oluremi Tinubu who is the first woman to seat for three consecutive times in the National Assembly representing Lagos Central Senatorial District, said women should not be disillusioned by the Muslim/Muslim ticket consideration, saying very soon Christian-Christian ticket is imminent on the Country.
“God works as he pleases; Muslim ticket or no Muslim ticket, we don’t really know how God moves. This one would set the tone for the future because sometimes very soon, we would see a Christian-Christian ticket. God is supreme in his decision. What he has done is marvelous in our eyes,” Oluremi Tinubu said.
She assured the issues of women and youths would be given priority if the Tinubu/Shettima candidacy be voted in 2023.
Stating she is ‘a passionate worker,’ she said, “I can reassure you that women issues and youth employment would be on the front burner of the Tinubu/Shettima candidacy.
“Vote for Tinubu/Shettima, you are voting for the new thing God has started for Nigeria.
“We can assure women and the youths that they are partners in progress,” she said.
Tinubu called on the youths to seek proper information from social media, warning them to steer clear from misinformation, particularly on misconception on personalities, on the ground that truths could be doctored on social media technology.
“Social media is good, but it is good to seek for proper information. You all rely so much in the technology so much that you don’t really know the truth. The truth is doctored on technology. When you want to know about people, the technology too could give you the right information to know about them.
“I want to tell them today that I stand tall in my State,” she said, appreciating her constituents in Lagos Central Senatorial District.
Tinubu said she has kept on working for the good of humanity since she served in supporting capacity while her husband served as Lagos Governor.
Rallying support for the re-election of Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, she described him as one ‘making things happen’ in the State.
Wife of the APC vice Presidential candidate, Nana Kashim Shettima, called on the women to throw their support behind the APC presidential candidacy in the 2023 election.
Southwest Coordinator, Tinubu/Shettima Women Presidential Campaign, and First Lagos, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, said women should work using their vote for the victory of Tinubu for consolidation and continuity of the present administration.
She said continuity is “the sure way to greatest progress,” mentioning that Nigeria needs the “political sagacity and intelligence” of Tinubu to lead the Country.
She mentioned that Tinubu has the requisite experience and capacity to transform Nigeria, stating that his antecedents in Lagos testifies to the capacity.
The National Women Leader of the APC, Dr. Betta Edu, rallying support for Governor Sanwo-Olu described him as “women empowerer,” while calling on the women to throw their support behind Tinubu for the 2023 presidency.
She said the vision is to deliver 40 million votes for Tinubu, calling on the women to take the message from “door to door, street to street and ward to ward.”
She called on the women to take custody of their PVCs.
In his comment, the Chairman of APC, Lagos, Cornelius Ojelabi, said women are powerful and their place is critical in national development.
According to him, the place of the women to secure victory for the candidates of the party in the 2023 general elections have been recognised.
He called on them to be responsive to stand with the men folk in the race to make Nigeria great, to enjoy the dividends of democracy “for the Country to take its rightful place among the committee of nations.”
He encouraged them not to rest from the demands for national development, so that “no one would be left behind in the project of developing the Country.”
