The Presidential storm of the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu gathered great momentum yesterday, January 13 as his political associates stormed Ibadan to intensify mobilization for him.
The allies in attendance, drawn from the Southwest zone of the country include former and current Speakers of State Houses of Assembly in the geo-political zone. At the last count, no fewer than twenty current and past Speakers in the States’ Assemblies in the region were in attendance at the meeting.
The attendees include Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, former Speakers of Osun State House of Assembly, Mojeed Alabi and Najeem Salam, former Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly, Asimiyu Alarape and former speakers from Ondo and Ekiti, among others.
The Lagos State House of Assembly speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, who convened the meeting said that all former and current Speakers in the region had taken it upon themselves to support Tinubu’s presidency in 2023, and had formed Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) Foundation to break the shackles of poverty in the country.
The Lagos State Speaker said that although, Bola Tinubu has not given the go-ahead to kick-start his interest in the presidency, there is a need to deliberate on “this all-important issue on behalf of Tinubu.”
He called on all attendees at the meeting to go back to their respective states to set up the template that would see to the actualisation Tinubu mandate.
Speaking on the essence and resolutions made at the meeting, the National Coordinator, BAT Movement, Ambassador Aliyu Saulawa emphasized that the movement is ready to ensure power shift to the Southwest and to be clinched by Tinubu.
“What was resolved at the meeting include, that power must shift to the South and that the Southwest must produce the next president.”
Source: The Nation.
