2023: Nigeria needs me – Tinubu

Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that Nigeria requires a daring leader like him.

Tinubu characterized himself as the best competent candidate for the job of President of Nigeria in 2023.

Previous Governor Atiku Abubakar addressed at a meeting in Lagos attended by former and current All Progressives Congress (APC) Speakers and their Deputies.

“We have the brilliance, the resources, the focus. We don’t just know how to run the race and take care of the gear of progress.

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“Just as I need Nigeria, Nigeria needs me”, he said at the event hosted by Lagos Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa.

Tinubu recalled how he changed the fortunes of Lagos when he was the helmsman from 1999 to 2007.

“In the face of tyranny, I have survived, struggled for democracy. I have endured the bush path, lived without a family, spent resources,” he said.

The one-time Senator said he was the first governor to grant autonomy to the House of Assembly.

“I survived non-allocation of local government funds. We didn’t suffer, we didn’t retrench”, he told the gathering.

Tinubu said he inherited N600million as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) with zero allocation from Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC).

“We survived and today, Lagos is number one economy. That is why I am begging you to do me a favour so that I can do Nigeria a favour”, the aspirant added.