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  • 10th NASS: Akpabio gets backing for Senate President, Jibrin as deputy

    10th NASS: Akpabio gets backing for Senate President, Jibrin as deputy

    Concerned All Progressives Congress (APC) Members Forum, a registered group of all party members,  has backed the call for the emergence of Sen. Godswill Akpabio as the President of the 10th Senate.

    Mr Okpokwu Ogenyi, Convener of the group, while briefing newsmen in Abuja on Saturday also supported the call for Sen. Barau Jibrin (APC-Kano) to be the Deputy Senate President.

    He said: “We are aware that zoning is not done in a vacuum, so we highly recommend Sen. Godswill Akpabio for the position of Senate President and Senator Barau Jibrin as Deputy Senate President respectively”.

    Ogenyi said that their support was based on consideration of federal character in the zoning of the 10th senate leadership bearing in mind, competence and credibility with an understanding that the country is a circular state with multi-faith.

    According to him, the development will go a long way in building the confidence of party members across the country in preparation for the future of the party.

    “It is pertinent to note that, in the South, South-South contributed the second highest votes after South-West which houses the President-elect.

    “The North-West gave the party the highest votes in the North with Kano state consistently giving APC the highest vote per state in every election since the formation of the party.

    “More so, our submission is based on their legislative experience, prudent financial management, fair disposition towards national peace and unity, care for the less privileged, competence, reward for hard work, electoral value and diplomatic relations.

    “In the National Assembly, Sen. Akpabio is the most ranking senator from the South-South under the platform of the APC while Sen. Barau Jibrin is the most ranking senator from the North West.

    “We call on the President-elect, the Progressives Governor’s Forum (PGF) and the State chairmen of our party to implement a government of National competence by supporting the zoning of the Senate Presidency to the South-South and Deputy to the North West,” Ogenyi said.

    He noted that the constitution of the party and its manifesto which does not preach religion, ethnicity, and tribal dichotomy, emphised competence while providing qualitative leadership for Nigerians.

    “It is a fact that for the executive arm of government to perform maximally, it must work with the legislature professionally to ensure dividends of democracy to the teaming population of Nigerians.

    “We understand that the business of legislature is highly professional because it deals with law-making and financial appropriation, its leadership must be able, ready, and willing to support Mr. President in the governance of the country.

    “We believe that, the party’s role in the National Assembly Leadership is to ensure the emergence of a competent senator who has distinguished himself over the years, devoid of religious and tribal sentiment.

    “We need a pan-Nigerian who has been tested and trusted, proven worthy of integrity, character and prudent management.

    “The President-elect is from the South-West and the Vice President-elect is from the Nort-East, as such, the Senate President should be zoned to the South-South and the Deputy Senate President to the North West.

    “The speaker of the House of Representatives and deputy should be accommodated by the other zones in view of competence and credibility of Honourable members,” Ogenyi said.

    He further said that the President-elect needed highly competent National Assembly members with vast knowledge of legislative business to complement him in delivering dividends of democracy to Nigerians.

  • Godswill Akpabio endorsed for Senate Presidency

    Godswill Akpabio endorsed for Senate Presidency

    A support group, Tinubu Vanguard, has endorsed Sen. Godswill Akpabio as the 10th Senate President of  Nigeria.

    The Director-General of Tinubu Vanguard, Dr Johnny Benjamin, said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.

    According to Benjamin, a proper analysis of the current political equation of the country favours Akpabio as best suited to head the 10th Senate.

    “Tinubu Vanguard is a grassroots based organisation with structures across the length and breadth of the country, with proper understanding of the yearnings and aspirations of the people.

    “Having sampled the opinion of the people in the grassroots, the Godswill Apkabio Senate presidency will best complement the Sen. Bola Tinubu presidency.

    “It will be a perfect balance of power amongst the geopolitical zones and states,” he said.

    Benjamin said that the need to avoid a senate that could be hostile to the executive also informed the choice of Akpabio as senate president.

    “Politics being a game of numbers requires someone who can actually muzzle these numbers.

    “We have had situations in the past when the senate president ran different agenda from that of the party and the president, thereby retarding progress of the administration.

    “With Akpabio as head of the National Assembly, the incoming administration can be sure of required legislative support to solve the various challenges and deliver democratic dividends, to Nigerians,” he said.

    He described Akpabio as a round peg in a round hole, who had demonstrated loyalty to the Tinubu presidential project through his support and commitment during the general election.

    “This is an indication that, as senate president, Akpabio will guarantee peaceful coexistence between the executive and the legislature, which is a panacea for rapid economic growth and national development.

    “We are aware that the election of the leadership of the national assembly is purely an internal affair.

    “We therefore urge all well meaning senators-elect who have the interest of Nigerians at heart to throw their weight behind the candidature of Sen. Godswill Akpabio,” he said.

  • How I managed to secure my senatorial ticket – Akpabio

    How I managed to secure my senatorial ticket – Akpabio

    Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District, Senator Godswill Akpabio has opened up on how he managed to secure the senatorial ticket.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Akpabio, who is a former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, to have said he went into the trenches to secure his senatorial ticket and that it took the grace of God and the prayer of his supporters.

    He made this disclosure while addressing a mammoth crowd of party members, supporters and stakeholders from Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District in his Ukana country home on Saturday.

    The former Senate Minority Leader told the crowd of his acceptance of their call for him to represent them at the Red Chambers of the National Assembly saying, “I came here today to formally inform you that I am on the ballot, as your Senatorial Candidate on the platform of the APC. Let me assure us all that our governorship candidate, Obong Akan Udofia, will also be on the ballot. Therefore, go all out and campaign for all our candidates because the party has all it takes to win elections from the national to the states”.

    Akpabio seized the occasion to extol the virtues of the Presidential Candidate of the party, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying, “Senator Tinubu is a tested and trusted leader, who is going into the presidential race as an achiever and performer in public office. Tinubu stands for good governance and performance. Presidential contest is for somebody with capacity to deliver and Asiwaju Tinubu represents that.”

    Speaking further, the former presidential aspirant thanked President Muhamadu Buhari, for his commitment to the security of the country with the recent release of the kidnapped railway passengers and commissioning of the second Niger Bridge before the end of the year.

    “The storm is over. I was not seen in the state shortly after the senatorial primaries of June 9th 2022, because I went into the trenches to secure your senatorial ticket. By the grace of God and your support through prayers, I am today, on the ballot as your senatorial candidate,” he said.

    “Let us all return to our polling units, wards and local governments to canvass support for all our candidates at all levels. Let us also open our arms to all our members, who are aggrieved one way or the other. We need every member on board because our party is large enough to accommodate everyone. The more the merrier,” he stressed.

  • INEC denies recognising Lawan, Akpabio for senatorial elections

    INEC denies recognising Lawan, Akpabio for senatorial elections

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied alleged   doctoring of  documents to accommodate Sen. Ahmed Lawan and Godswill Akpabio to run for Yobe North and Akwa Ibom North West senatorial districts respectively in  2023.

    The commission gave the denial in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye in Abuja on Tuesday.

    Okoye said that not for the first time, INEC’s  attention had been drawn to a story published by an online medium that the commission had doctored, backdated and certified documents to accommodate the nominations of Lawan and Akpabio, from Yobe and Akwa-Ibom respectively.

    Okoye said that nothing could be further from the truth.

    He said that as evidence of the alleged role played by the commission, a certified true copy of Form 9C uploaded by the duo candidates’ political party and received by INEC on June 17 when the nomination portal closed was presented.

    Okoye said that for clarity, the Form EC9 (submission of names of candidates by political parties) was the form uploaded by parties on the INEC nomination portal.

    He said that was clearly indicated on the title of the form which was received on June 17 when the portal closed.

    “What follows is the publication of the personal particulars of nominated candidates which was done a week later. The forms of the two personalities in question were not published by the commission. The decision of the commission triggered legal action which are still ongoing.

    “It, therefore,  defies logic and common sense to go around and submit doctored documents purportedly recognising the duo as candidates when the matter is clearly sub-judice.”

    Okoye said that as part of the ongoing case in Court, a law firm requested for a Certified True Copy (CTC) of the Form EC9 submitted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as its candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District which INEC was duty bound to oblige them under the law.

    He explained that the form was certified on July 15, 2022.

    “If minimum care has been exercised by the promoters of the story, they would have seen the two stamps of the commission bearing different dates on the form.

    “It is this form that is now misconstrued as INEC’ s endorsement. For the record, the commission has not recognised any of the two personalities as  senatorial candidates.”

    Okoye called for responsible reportage as against the unwarranted attack on the INEC and its officials over a matter than could be easily fact checked.

  • Just In: INEC bows to pressure from APC, backdates documents to capture Senate President Lawan, Akpabio as Senatorial Candidates

    Just In: INEC bows to pressure from APC, backdates documents to capture Senate President Lawan, Akpabio as Senatorial Candidates

     

    The Independent National Electoral Commission has backdated Certified True Copies of reports of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries to accommodate Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, Godswill Akpabio and others as candidates in the 2023 general elections.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls Bashir Machina won the party’s ticket for Yobe North Senatorial District, while Udom Ekpoudom won the primary election for Akwa Ibom North-West which was monitored by INEC officials.

    In Yobe, a certified true copy of the commission’s report from the election of May 28, 2022, revealed Machina polled 289 votes out of 300 delegates. The document was certified by the electoral office on June 23, 2022.

    The National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Adamu had warned of severe sanctions if Machina refused to relinquish his ticket to Lawan.

    Adamu claimed that the party is supreme and that it reserves the right to decide who gets its ticket in any election.

    In Akwa Ibom, Akpabio was declared the winner of another primary, but the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for the state, Mike Igini, had said that the exercise which produced the former minister as a candidate was not monitored by the commission.

    According to Section 31 of the Electoral Act only allows for substitution when a candidate dies or when he or she withdraws from the race and informs INEC in writing.

    The section reads: “A candidate may withdraw his or her candidature by notice in writing signed by him and delivered personally by the candidate to the political party that nominated him for the election and the political party shall convey such withdrawal to the commission not later than 90 days to the election”.

    “INEC has caved in to political pressures and other forces deployed by the outgoing Senate President, Mr Ahmad Lawan and his backers to shred the report of the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner that supervised the APC primary Elections in Yobe state by doctoring and backdating it to accommodate the Senate president and others in states where they have an interest.

    “Shockingly, the Chairman of INEC Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu is fully part of this plot, making direct telephone calls to state offices.

    “Despite the glaring fact that Ahmad Lawan was a principal actor in the APC presidential primary, which saw him lose to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, he has since mounted relentless pressures on INEC leadership to obtain a senatorial ticket in Yobe state by all means possible”, a source had said.

    A source confirmed that the certified true copy of reports had been doctored and backdated to accommodate the Senate President and former Akwa Ibom Governor.

    “Nigerians will be shocked that despite serial denials by Professor Yakubu-led commission that Lawan and Akpabio names would not be on the ballot as senatorial candidates respectively, INEC is merely deceiving them, signifying a roll back to Professor Maurice lwu-led commission that gave so much hope for the 2007 election which later became the worst election in Nigeria’s electoral history.

    “The EPM (Election Monitoring Department) under a very compromised Director, Musa who is about to retire from service and one Barr. Tanimu of the legal department have back-dated documents to include Lawan and Akpabio on the ballot. INEC is now returning gradually to Prof Maurice lwu’s era.

    “Just as it was then that there was a notorious National Commissioner named Chukwuani who was the politicians’ hatchet man of that inglorious period, so is Festus Okoye now who is the hand-gun of politicians being used in the emerging efforts to mess up the outcome of party primaries by accepting from political parties names of individuals who didn’t participate in primaries monitored by its states’ offices.

    “Nigerians will recall that Festus Okoye had been in virtually all television stations granting interviews on Channels TV to prepare the minds of Nigerians to what they are about to make public on the final list when he said ‘RECs are not recognised members of INEC and the commission is not bound by the reports of party primaries monitored by state offices because they also send monitors from Abuja that write reports to INEC Headquarters’.

    “Both the EPM and legal department have advised lawyers of Akpabio to file a writ of summons so that witnesses could be called and Abuja INEC Headquarters will prepare and bring forward a staff member that will testify that he or she monitored the re-run primary in line with what Okoye had told Nigerians. This is how they planned to do away with state offices’ reports of the party primaries submitted to the headquarters.

    “APC has taken control of INEC headquarters, that is why there’s an outcry over the outcome of the primaries in virtually all the states across the country, from Oyo, Ogun, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Kano, Sokoto, it’s the same story. Festus Okoye’s interview has done so much damage to the confidence Nigerians were beginning to have over the outcome of recent elections.

    “Commissioner Okoye is now the spokesperson for both INEC and corrupt politicians, as he has been assuring them of having not committed any offence under section 115 of the 2020 Electoral Act despite a Federal High Court judgment in Ebonyi State. Politicians have infiltrated and are in control of INEC. The chairman of INEC at a recent event deceptively told his listeners that they will implement the provision of the 2022 Act and that politicians should study it yet he accepted from political parties names of persons who didn’t go through primaries and refused to apply the provisions of section 84 of the same Act and section 285 of the Constitution to reject those names that his commission published as candidates.

    “The discordant tunes from headquarters and states where party primaries were conducted have created serious doubts about the trustworthiness of Prof Mahmood Yakubu’s headship of INEC to conduct a free fair and credible election in 2023. The brazenness of INEC in forging a document showing that the name of Akpabio was submitted to it is a further confirmation of compromise at the highest level”.

    Source: Sahara Reporters

  • 2023: Ayade, Akpabio, Lawan, others did not violate Electoral Act by obtaining multiple forms – INEC

    2023: Ayade, Akpabio, Lawan, others did not violate Electoral Act by obtaining multiple forms – INEC

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has clarified that aspirants who obtained multiple forms for party primaries have not violated the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye was clarifying Section 115 of the Electoral Act 2022 when he made this known.

    Recall that President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan; former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State; Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and some others obtained multiple forms for the primary elections their political party conducted.

    Lawan, Akpabio, Ayade and Umahi who were presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were also said to have purchased senatorial forms for their various senatorial districts.

    Section 115(1) (d) of the Act provides that any person who signs a nomination paper or result form as a candidate in more than one constituency at the same election commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a term of imprisonment.

    Section 152 of the Act defines a candidate to mean a person who has secured the nomination of a political party to contest an election for any elective office.

    Reacting on Tuesday in an interview with a correspondent of PUNCH Newspapers, Okoye said those who obtained and signed multiple forms were aspirants and not candidates as defined by Section 152 of the Electoral Act.

    “Before someone will come within the compass and contemplation of the law as a candidate, the political party must conduct valid primaries and the sponsoring party must upload the list or information relating to the candidates they intend to sponsor to the commission’s candidates nomination portal and this is in compliance with Section 29(1) of the Electoral Act, 2022.

    “Thereafter, the personal particulars of the candidates will be displayed in the constituencies where they intend to contest the election and this is for claims and objections.

    “After this process, the candidates will now fill nomination forms (Forms EC13A, EC13B, EC13C, EC13D and EC13 E) in compliance with Section 30(1) of the Electoral Act.

    “Section 30(1) of the Act provides that a candidate for an election shall be nominated in writing by such number of persons whose names appear on the register of voters in the constituency as the commission may prescribe.

    “This is the process covered by Section 115(d) of the Electoral Act. The last day for the submission of nomination forms for presidential candidates and National Assembly candidates is August 8, 2022 while that of governorship and state assembly candidates is August 18, 2022.

    “During the conduct of party primaries, the persons you referred to are aspirants as defined by Section 152 of the Electoral Act. The forms they filled as aspirants are the forms of their political parties and not that of the commission.

    “The list submitted by the political parties under Section 29(1) of the Act is the list of candidates the party proposes to sponsor.

    “The only documents signed by the candidates are the affidavit deposed by them. That is not the nomination form as contemplated by Section 115(d) of the Act,” Okoye said.

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    Notwithstanding, INEC had earlier said it did not monitor the primaries that produced some of the aspirants as senatorial candidates, and therefore are not eligible to run in the 2023 elections.

  • South-South APC wants Akwa Ibom REC to resign or be removed

    The APC in the South – South geopolitical zone of Nigeria wants the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Akwa Ibom State to resign or be sacked.

    The party’s Zonal Organising Secretary, Dr. Blessing Agbomhere stated this on Tuesday in a press statement.

    Dr Agbomhere said the REC, Mr. Mike Igini’s comments and role in the controversial governorship and senatorial primaries were not befitting of someone highly placed.

    Agbomhere accused Igini of being ‘biased and partial’, adding that his conduct gave him away as a man who was ‘indebted, compromised, and running higgledy-piggledy to appeal to his pay-master.”

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    “My attention has been drawn to the vituperation and grandstanding by the Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Mike Igini, regarding the governorship and senatorial primary elections for the Akwa Ibom State.

    As far as the APC primary elections in Akwa Ibom states is concerned, the role played by Mike Igini so far is biased, partial and reasonably shows the act of a man who is indebted, compromised, and running higgledy-piggledy to appeal to his pay-master,” he said.

    Continuing, the APC chieftain stressed that it was up to the members of the APC, not Igini, to dispute the primary election that produced the candidates forwarded by the party.

    This is even as he warned that if Igini had an axe to grind with former Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio, he should not drag other party members into their feud.

    Parties who participate in primary elections and are members of a political party are in the best position to disagree over the outcome of an election, not INEC. It is not in the place of Igini to dispute the election, except he is a member of the APC and a contestant in the said primary election.

    “Let me further emphasise that it is the duty of the political party to send names of their candidates to INEC and not Igini. If Igini has personal issues with Senator Godswill Akpabio, he should avail himself of a different forum to sort the issues out with him, as we will not allow him to stand as an impediment to the imminent victory of the APC in Akwa Ibom and the South-South of Nigeria. And having done what he has done, Igini is no longer fit to be INEC Resident Commissioner in Akwa Ibom State.

    “I, therefore, call on Igini to, without further delay, resign his position as Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom State. In the event that Igini refuses to resign, I call on the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, to sack Igini without hesitation in order to ensure that the political atmosphere in Akwa Ibom State does not degenerate into anarchy and the reputation of INEC is not reduced to that of a mad man, who has no shame or nothing to protect,” he charged.

  • Udum Ekpoudum remains APC candidate for Akwa Ibom North, not Akpabio – INEC says

    The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Akwa Ibom State, Barrister Mike Igini has said INEC report On the Akwa Ibom North-West (Ikot Ekpene) senatorial ticket which recognizes Udum Ekpoudum as an APC candidate subsists and would not be changed.

    The REC said Senator Godswill Akpabio has nothing to do about it.

    Akpabio, the immediate past Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, emerged the winner of a re-run primary conducted at the Skill Acquisition Centre, Ikot Ekpene, having polled 478 votes out of 512 accredited delegates for the election.

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    But speaking on a Current Affairs programme on Radio, Igini said the re-run primary that led to the emergence of Senator Godswill Akpabio as the All Progressives Congress candidate for the district is strange and unknown to law.

    According to him, the May 27, 2022 primary, which produced a former Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Udum Ekpoudum (retd.), subsists because it was not cancelled, neither was it rendered inconclusive.

    He added that Senator Akpabio’s emergence is nothing but a “Nollywood fantasy.”

    Igini added that what he knew about Akpabio was that he was the presidential aspirant for the All Progressives Congress who stepped down for Bola Tinubu, adding that, even if there was a re-run, it could only be conducted for aspirants that participated in the first primary.

    He advised politicians contesting the 2023 general election to meticulously study the new provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act as amended, so as not to continue with the hope that things were still the way it were with the repealed 2010 and 2012 Electoral Act.

    “By virtue of Section 31 of the 2022 Electoral Act, the only way somebody can be replaced in any form is that we no longer have substitution by political party. What you have now is withdrawal by individual or nominee and or death.

    “The law is not saying you should go and kill people so that you can have yourself on the ballot. No. The law is saying that those who have emerged at all levels up to the presidential level, you can decide that you are no longer interested. You can write an application signed by yourself, and delivered to your party who will now deliver to INEC, but nobody can shave the political head of another person in his or her absence.

    “The report of the Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District APC primary as submitted to INEC headquarters in Abuja is final. It is concluded. The train has left the station. The timeline is clear. All those who are in politics should go and study the 2022 Electoral Act very well.

    “I hear people talk about substitution. If you look at Section 31 and Section 34 of the Electoral Act, those of you who are still carrying the old idea of the 2010, 2012 Electoral Act in your head, thinking you can substitute wilfully, it is no longer so.

    “Then number two is only in the case of death. Even at that, there will now be a fresh primary. This is the new law. So, what we are seeing going on is clearly a misnomer. The rerun can only be conducted between and among those who participated in the first Senatorial election of May 27, 2022 and the Senatorial primary for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District was not cancelled, was not nullified, was not inconclusive. It was conclusive, it was concluded and the report was written and it is final because you cannot reopen that anymore,” he declared.

  • INEC disqualifies Akpabio, says senatorial primary election not valid

    Former Senate Minority leader, Godswill Akpabio has been rejected by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District candidate in next year’s general elections.

    INEC has faulted the primary election that produced the former Akwa Ibom governor.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that  Akpabio stepped down for the National Leader of the APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the party’s presidential primaries held at Eagle square on Tuesday.

    Meanwhile Akpabio was declared winner of the APC senatorial primary for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District on Thursday two days after the presidential primary.

    The Akwa Ibom State APC Chairman, Stephen Ntukekpo, had said he was directed by the ruling party’s national body to conduct a re-run over alleged infractions.

    Then results from the fresh primary said Akapbio emerged winner with 478 votes, while DIG Ekpo Udom (rtd), who won the first primary, secured just three votes.

    But the Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC in Akwa Ibom State, Mr Mike Igini, said  that INEC would only recognize the winner of the primaries monitored by the commission.

    He said that INEC did not monitor the re-run APC senatorial primaries, that saw Akpabio emerged winner.

    “The primaries were concluded on the 27 of May, so I don’t know what you are talking about. The one that was conducted was monitored by INEC and the report has been submitted to Abuja.

    “INEC is not aware of any senatorial primaries conducted on Thursday (June 9) that was monitored by INEC, none,” he stated.

    The REC also affirmed that the APC has no governorship candidate in the state.

  • BREAKING: Godswill Akpabio steps down for Tinubu

    A former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio has stepped down from the presidential race for Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the ongoing APC presidential primary election in Abuja.

    Akpabio, also a former Akwa Ibom governor, announced his withdrawal while addressing delegates at APC Special National Convention.

    Akpabio after a brief speech in which he hailed the Asiwaju as a man of sight and vision.

    He directed his supporters to vote for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the convention.