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Tinubu, APC Governors Storm Kebbi….
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Peter Obi, Labour Party Chiefs Campaign In Lagos
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Atiku Intensifies Campaign In The South East
For Nigerians and the different political parties, the Die is cast as the minute hand of the clock, tick tock sluggishly but steadily to February 25, a day set aside for the presidential election. Undoubtedly, all the presidential candidates are currently in a last minute push for votes. Indeed the push have come shove.
Aside from the party’s manifesto, each of the presidential candidates appears to stand on a rugged Kong of political mantra that has become a familiar tune to the electorate, who, for now, have become a priceless bride. Sweet political lyrics rent the air as campaigns become more intense. Like unprepared warfare, the melody of campaigns showed that the political parties are at daggers drawn as innuendos are deployed to out do one another.
In far away Kebbi state, the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban of Nigeria’s politics was on the podium with his political gang to convince the people to cast their votes for him and his party men. This time, the APC kingpin did not dwell on frivolities but assured the people that their international acclaimed fishing festival, the Argungu which is gradually fading into oblivion would not only be resuscitated to reclaim it’s once envious glory but would become a catalyst for economic prosperity.
Jagaban promised to convert the arable mass land of Kebbi into an Agro Allied industrial estate for Nigeria. This conceived idea, according to him, would create jobs for the teeming youths in the state.
He, however, thanked the people immensely for collaborating with the Lagos State government in the production of rice. In this regard, the APC presidential candidate also assured the people that Kebbi state would definitely become a rice producing hub upon assumption of office as Nigeria’s President.
In Lagos, the Labour Party, LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi was dancing with the mammoth crowd that besieged the popular Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS to hear him talk.
Despite the reported skirmish of unsolicited mob attack on his supporters on their way to the campaign venue, the soft spoken presidential candidate was undeterred. He prevailed on his supporters not to launch a reprisal attack so that the crisis would not escalate beyond unimaginable proportion.
He doused the tensed tension by expressing sympathy for the mob victims before he began his campaign proper.
The LP presidential candidate promised to create jobs for the idle hands in Nigeria, who, he claimed are mainly youths. The Nigeria’s economy, according to him, would graduate from becoming a consuming one to a productive economy.
The LP Lagos mass rally was attracted the who is who in the Nigerian creative industry, otherwise known as Nollywood. Each of prominent Actors present, took turn to give a word of encouragement to the LP presidential candidate.
The presence of the Octogenarian, the Chieftain of the Pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo stirs the mammoth crowd when puts an appearance on the podium.
The Octogenarian who stood on the tripod of Equity, Justice and Fairness insisted that its the turn of the Igbos to rule Nigeria if the country would continue to exist as one indivisible nation.
Others who spoke was Professor Patrick Utomi among other party faithful.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was in the South East.
He assured the people that upon assumption of office, the South East would be sure of having a dry port that would help their business enterprise.
