The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, as thanked all the governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and other loyal members of the party for their loyalties in ensuring that he emerged as the next president to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari....CONTINUE READING
Recall that Tinubu came out tops in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states, and secured significant numbers in several other states to claim the highest number of votes -8,794,726. He has almost two million votes more than his closest rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Atiku Abubakar who has now run for president six times, got 6,984,520 votes, while the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who, in less than a year, galvanised young voters in a manner some have described as unprecedented finished the race with 6,101,533.
However, the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu while thanking the governors of APC suffered a gaffe while delivering his acceptance speech at at the APC Presidential Campaign Council headquarters in Abuja shortly after he was declared the winner of the presidential poll.
The former governor of Lagos state made a mistake of saying that the governors delivery victories for him and without their efforts, he wouldn’t have been the governor and president elect.
Hear him, “Every governors of our party and this nation to the party leadership and many loyal party members. You the progressive party leadership, you faced a cashless policy.
Some of you are still owing the party agents. Despite all, you delivered victory, without your dedication, I will not be standing before you as governor and president-elect. You people made it possible. There is no way I can ever intensionally let you down”.
