The governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, asked Imo State residents on Tuesday to support Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary on Saturday, February 25.
He claimed that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, had the support of the Ndigbo in Lagos State and is expected to win the election.
The Governor asked all Ndigbo, especially those in Imo State and all Nigerians, to vote for Tinubu in next week’s presidential election and for all of the APC candidates running in the upcoming general elections to restore optimism.
In addition to President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Adamu Abdullahi, Deputy Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Comrade Adams Oshimhole, Governors Hope Uzodinma (Imo), Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), and other APC leaders, Governor Sanwo-Olu spoke at the APC presidential campaign rally in Owerri, the capital of Imo State.
He said: “I bring you greetings from the Centre of Excellence to the state of great hope to show that there is a handshake across the Niger, where all your people are. They want me to come here to tell you that even the Ndigbo in Lagos are with Asiwaju. So, we have come here to show you that we are the same. That is why I have come down here to show solidarity with the great hope in Imo State and the hope that is renewed for Nigeria under the able leadership of our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“We want to thank you, Mr. President, for keeping to your word that you will join us on the campaign train in all of the regional states in the country. We want to thank you sir for coming down here to show everyone that indeed you are a President for all.
“We want to thank you for the great Igbo community and I bring you greetings from all of us in Lagos that we stand with you across the Niger. We stand with you believing that the renewed hope is here and the great hope of Imo is also here.
“Let us go out next week Saturday and do the right thing; do the rightful thing and bring about a renewed hope under the hope of Imo into the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. God bless you all.”