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Buhari, Tinubu others lead campaign for Ambode 

By Wole Oyebade 
09 April 2015   |   5:33 am
President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari and National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Tuesday led the APC mobilisation rally in Lagos, canvassing votes for APC candidates in the Saturday’s election.  

BuhariPresident-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari and National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Tuesday led the APC mobilisation rally in Lagos, canvassing votes for APC candidates in the Saturday’s election.

With APC now elected for the centre, they said it was time for Lagos to reap the fruit of her labour in the last 16 years.

Speaking at the rally held at Orile, Lagos, Buhari said Lagos was too important for APC to lose, as he charged all registered voters in Lagos to turnout en masse and vote Akinwunmi Ambode, the APC guber candidate in Lagos.

Buhari said: “I want to thank and congratulate you for voting me. While going round to campaign, he (Fashola) told me how much Lagos State government has been spending to maintain the federal infrastructure left here and I said definitely, if we win the election and I become the president, I will give Lagos a priority.

“I am here mainly to thank you for voting me, our senators and our house of representatives members and to tell you to do all you can to vote APC in the governorship and house of assembly election.

You must ensure you vote APC from top to bottom.   “Lagos is too important for APC to lose. I am giving you the assignment of voting APC. You cannot joke with APC investment; your own investment. Don’t attempt to be at the wrong side of the centre, we are now the centre,” Buhari said.

The president-elect assured every tribe in Lagos of adequate security, adding that the state remains home to all.   “I have a lot of respect for Fashola for his hard work, his commitment to Lagos State and the country.

There is no doubting the fact that Lagos is a mini Nigeria, we are all here and I assure you that if you vote APC, it will benefit you individually and collectively.

It is our interest to vote APC. So, when you go back, tell your friends, tell your  neighbours, your relatives, even the opposition party to vote APC,” he said.   Addressing the controversy generated by comments credited to the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu at the rally, Tinubu disassociated political authority from that of the monarchy.

He, however, blamed some individuals who had taken political matters to monarchs for hearing, just to cause confusion.   He reiterated that the issue of discrimination against any tribe does not arise in Lagos, saying all Lagosians enjoy benefits of the APC-led  state government in the last sixteen years.

Tinubu said: “We have been paying school fees and WAEC fees of all students from different tribes including the Ibos in Lagos without recourse to where they come from.

I want to thank and congratulate you for voting me. While going round to campaign, he (Fashola) told me how much Lagos State government has been spending to maintain the federal infrastructure left here and I said definitely, if we win the election and I become the president, I will give Lagos a priority.

Have you been collecting the school fees in the Oba of Lagos Palace?”   He added that the Ibos had won the Lagos State Government Spelling Bee Competitions three consecutive times, they were given scholarships to study in the best tertiary institutions in the world and offered employments as executive officers in blue chip companies.

For instance, he cited Ebuka from Anambra State, who won the spelling bee competition. “We didn’t do Iwu against him, to over-turn the vote. We did not discriminate against him, he acted as One Day Governor.

So, Ibos cannot say they have not govern Lagos because Ebuka and others acted as governor here. We sent Ebuka to Switzerland for training, to computer school, to Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), got his degree and went back for his Masters on our scholarship.

Now Ebuka works for Oando Nigeria Plc  as an executive. Ebuka is in Canada as we speak.”    “We did not just pick Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode as our governorship candidate. He has the brain, character , integrity and ability to do a good job.

When the Federal Government seized our money in Abuja we would have retrenched workers and sack some workers but Ambode said, ‘Oga, there is way out of the problem and that is the man we are presenting for continuity,” Tinubu said.

With General Buhari  on the rally ground were APC national chairman Chief John Oyegun, a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Abdurrahman Dambazau (rtd) , Senator Chris Ngige, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of  Rivers , Lagos State Governor Mr. Babatunde Fashola, among others.

6 Comments

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    Tinubu where is the Lagos state federal allocation withheld by obj, which was later released by president yaradua, in which ambode helped you to siphon which made gov fashola to sack him as the accountant general of lagos state. Where is the money, that made you to become very rich overnight.

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    Dear Lagosian, Yorubas are very decent and
    reasonable people. No tribe will entertain on their
    land what is going on in Lagos. We all condemn
    the statement of OBA AKIOLU but let ask
    ourselves one important question, WHY IS OBA
    AKIOLU ANGRY WITH IGBOS? My answers are: 1.
    I WILL ELEVATE EZE NDIGBO TO THE STATUS OF
    OBA OF LAGOS – JIMI AGBAJE. 2. IGBO WILL
    DETERMINE WHO RULES LAGOS- IFEANYI UBAH
    3. LAGOS IS NO MAN’S LAND.- IFEANYI UBAH
    DURING TAN CAMPAIGN. 4. IGBO DEVELOPED
    AND CONTROL LAGOS- JIMI AGBAJE DURING
    GEJ CAMPAIGN IN AKWA IBOM 5. WE MUST
    PRODUCE THE NEXT DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF
    LAGOS- EZE NDIGBO MY QUESTIONS TO IGBOS,
    1. CAN OBI OF ONITHSA ACCEPT ALL THE ABOVE
    MENTIONED? 2. CAN EMIR OF KANO ACCEPT
    ….? 3. DO YOU HAVE ANY SINGLE TRIBE IN
    YOUR CABINET IN THE EAST? 4. CAN ANY TRIBE
    CLAIM ONITHSA OR ABA TO BE NO MAN,S
    LAND? 5. CAN OBI OF ONITHSA ACCEPT THE
    ELEVATION OF SARKIN HAUSA IN ONITHSA TO
    OBI STATUS? 6. IF MAJORITY OF LAGOSIAN
    BELIEVE IFEANYI UBA DESERVE TO CHOSE THEIR
    GOVERNOR IN LAGOS I AM ALL FOR…Ooodua a gbe wa ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    • Author’s gravatar

      Hello Fellow Nigerians, this is all bullshit does it matters where one is from what matters is that the person regardless of what tribe or country he or she is from as long as the candidate is capable of making change to the society and the citizen we should just vote or elect who we think is right …when will this country see one another as one Nigerians…
      if a yourba man wants to contest in Abia,enugu ,imo , Anambra or onithsa he mighty as well go for it …regardless which part of the country or tribe you are as long as you’re a Nigerian you should and if you win govern the state and stop all this rubbish tribalism…..is time to wakeup and smell the morning due or coffie which ever one you prefer.

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        Today you claim BIAFRA tomorrow one Nigeria. You people said regionalism without knowing the meaning of it…We have Iboes in Apc government in Lagos an also some elected ones in Lagos WE ALSO HAVE HAUSAS AS COUNCILLORS IN LAGOS, OGUN AND OYO STATES …..Only in the southwestern part of Nigeria while you people dont allow that in your regions now IGBOS are claiming that they own Lagos and secretely recording their meeting with Oba of Lagos so as to use it against me thereby rubishing the culture of their host……Absolute nonsense…….IF ANY YORUBA MAN VOTED FOR AGBAJE HE IS A BASTARD…….