We Must Protect Nigeria’s Future — Tinubu Tasks APC Candidates

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, All Progressives Congress(APC) presidential candidate, has tasked governorship and National Assembly candidates of the party to protect Nigeria’s future by ensuring clear victory in the 2023 general election.

He said this at a meeting with APC governorship and National Assembly candidates on Sunday in Abuja, adding that they must collectively work for the party’s victory in the general election at all levels.

“We have the mandate to deliver the party to victory so that we may protect Nigeria from those who will devour all of its fruits,” Tinubu said.

According to him, this is critical to ensure that the party’s project of growth and development for the country is assured.

Tinubu who said he had been eager to meet with the party’s candidates, also urged them to ensure that they do not disappoint members of the party who elected them to fly the tickets at the poll.

“With the many unproductive years of the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s government, Nigerians and indeed APC members are expecting a new lease of life from the candidates.

“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 election,” he said.

Tinubu said that the APC was formed not just to be another political party, but as a champion of the people to rescue democracy from the ravages of the PDP who boasted of ruling the country for 60 years.

According to him, the APC was formed 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,” he stressed.

Tinubu urged the party’s candidates to go to the poll starting from the presidential and National Assembly election on Feb. 25 to the governorship and state Houses of Assembly election on March 11 with a united front.

The former two-term governor of Lagos State promised to continue to work for everyone, even as he also desired to become the country’s next president.

“But winning takes us working as a united force, we have to act like the broom, the symbol of our party.