2023: Fashola Reveals When Tinubu Will Declare Ambition

Abiola Olawale
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Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said one of the national leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will make his intention on 2023 presidential election known in January 2022.

Fashola, a two-time governor of Lagos state urged Nigerians to wait for Tinubu to declare his intention as he cautioned against declaration by third party.

Recently, the mobilisation of support for Tinubu’s purported ambition has dominated public discourse. Many groups and individuals have engaged in several campaign activities to drum support for the APC Chieftain.

Reacting on Channels Television’s ‘Hard Copy’ programme on Friday, Fashola said Tinubu, who is yet to declare his intention, will do so in due course.

Speaking on whether he has eyes for the highest seat in the land, Fashola said he has no interest in becoming the President of the country.

“It is a very tough responsibility, a very tough job; I don’t envy those who have held that office and I don’t envy those who aspire to take it as well,” he said.

He continued, “As far as I am aware, nobody has said, ‘I want to be Nigeria’s President’. There are people speaking for people. Nobody has come out, we are not at that stage yet.

“I can’t venture out and say that I will speak for X or Y. Let the person come out and say, ‘I want to serve Nigeria’.

“It pains me sometimes when we see that very important job and responsibility to, ‘My people said’. I think the whole sense of it should be that, ‘I am able, I have looked at myself, give me your problem, you go to sleep’.

“I saw him (Tinubu) last week, he didn’t tell me he is running for office and to the best of my knowledge, the last statement he made on it is that people will know in January.”

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