By Gbenga Sodeinde
Ekiti State State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has called on the various groups working for presidential candidate of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to work together and ensure that the party record victory during February 25th election.
Governor Oyebanji made the call during the Inauguration of Tinubu-Shetima Grass Roots Independent Campaign Council, Ekiti State Chapter
Represented by his Special Adviser on Political Affairs, Chief Jide Awe, the governor urged members of the committee at state and local Governments to see the assignment as a call to mobilize for the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in all nooks and crannies of the state.
Specifically, Oyebanji promised to support them to ensure that they achieve the desired goal come February 25th of this year by electing Asiwaju Tinubu as the next president of the country.
Similarly, the lawmaker representing Ekiti Central at the Red chamber, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele who equally preached unity among members of the newly inaugurated group, urged to members to complement the efforts of PCC by embarking on aggressive mobilisation especially at the grassroots for presidential candidate of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other candidates of the party during the next month election.
Senator Bamidele said that he has been with Asiwaju Tinubu for over thirty four years and benefited from him, saying he would do everything to pay him back by ensuring that he becomes the next presidential of Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He however enjoined the Ekiti people to take advantage of the GICC platform to take the message of Asiwaju Presidency to every nooks and crannies of the State.
According to Bamidele, “going by what is happening on the streets of Nigeria, and going by the nature of the popular side, and the scientific campaigns that the Asiwaju Campaign Organizations are running, and his antecedents, among all the other frontline candidates, and then, situating Asiwaju within all of these, it is obvious to me, that Asiwaju in this campaign, and the February 25th election, he is the Presidential Candidate to beat”.
“He said, he is very hopeful and convinced, that, Asiwaju is the kind of solution that Nigeria needs at this time among all those who are contesting. He is not promising to do anything that he has not done before.
“He was Governor of Lagos State for 8 years. And by the Grace of God, I was an integral part of his administration. I served in his cabinet, first time as special adviser, I served in his cabinet as honourable commissioner. And after that, I also served in the cabinet that took over from him under Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN”.
In his speech, Ekiti State Coordinator, Tinubu shetima Grassroot Independent Campaign Council, GICC, Prince Akintade Olayisade noted that, it is only presidential Candidate of APC that has the capacity to rule the nation well, hence the need to vote for him massively during the poll.
Prince Olayisade described Asiwaju Tinubu as “national resources” due to his antecedent of turning Lagos to a cosmopolitan State and economy hub of the country, saying such person should be given opportunity to replicate such at the national level.
According to him, GICC is the personal initiative of the presidential candidate of APC to embark on door to door, house to house, street to street campaign to ensure that the party win next month presidential election.
In his own address, the Deputy National Coordinator of the Tinubu / Shettima Grassroots Independent Campaign Council, GICC, Hon. Akinola Awodeyi Akinsehinwa, disclosed that the GICC and PCC were the major campaign organizations working for the realization of the presidential ambition of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the 25th of February, 2023.
Awodeyi while speaking further at the Ado Ekiti event on Sunday said that the purpose of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Grassroot Independent Campaign Council is to be elected as the President and Commander in Chief of the Country come February 25th, 2023 and by May, 2023, to be sworn-in as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces in the Country.
Prominent among leaders present include: the Deputy Speaker of Ekiti State, Rt Hon. Hakeem Jamiu, former Deputy Speakers of Ekiti State, Rt. Hon. Oladapo Karounwi, Rt Hon Taiwo Olatunbosun, Chief Ropo Adesanya, and the chairman Elders’ Forum of the APC, Chief Remi Oguntuase, aka REMOG.
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