Tinubu To Ekiti Voters: ‘Don’t Let Anybody Intimidate You’

'Dotun Akintomide
Writer
new-diplomat default image
new-diplomat default image

Ad

The Gift of Hindsight: What I Would Tell My Younger Self, By Johnson Babalola

By Johnson Babalola @jbdlaw Hindsight, they say, is life’s most generous teacher—but it sends its lessons late. It is only after the storms that the patterns become clear; only after the wrong turns that the map begins to make sense. As I celebrate another birthday today and have grown older, I often find myself reflecting…

Gasoline Prices Drop Toward Pandemic-Era Lows

The national average price of gasoline dropped below $3 a gallon over the weekend. GasBuddy has predicted that prices will go even lower in the coming weeks, with good prospects of motorists enjoying sub-$3 prices for extended periods. This drop is overwhelmingly being driven by the significant increase in oil production from OPEC throughout 2025.…

Alleged Christian Genocide Claim is Damaging Nigeria’s Image– Tuggar Laments

By Abiola Olawale Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has voiced concern over what he described as the damaging impact of the "Christian genocide" narrative on Nigeria's international image. This is as the Minister claimed that the country's complex security challenges are being falsely simplified as religious persecution. Speaking at the Reuters NEXT Gulf Summit…

Ad

By ‘Dotun Akintomide 

National leaders of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu Tuesday asked electorates in Ekiti not to allow intimdation from anybody, urging them to use their PVC wisely in Saturday’s governorship election.

Tinubu accused the PDP of destroying the country’s economy, urging the people to embrace the change agenda of the APC.

”It was the PDP that destroyed the future of Nigeria and those yet unborn. PDP stole all the monies and made life difficult for all the citizens

”It is not easy to rebuild what the PDP has spent long years destroying; for many of them that are now complaining, where were they when our economy was being bastardised?

”You must not allow anybody to intimidate you, I urge you to guard your PVC and use it wisely on Saturday.

” It is your turn in Ekiti to get a good government, it is not for you alone but for your children and their future,’’  Tinubu said.

Speaking in the same vein, President Muhammadu Buhari told voters to elect the candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC), Dr  Kayode Fayemi, given the track record of the ruling APC administration in the country.

Buhari, who gave the charge in Ado-Ekiti at the grand finale of the mega rally of the party, told the crowd of party faithful and supporters at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium that there was no better alternative to Fayemi.

He said the people of Ekiti must not be deceived  by the “stomach infrastructure’’ programme  of the PDP government in the state, describing it as at variance with the norms in a functional democracy.

Buhari said he was in  Ekiti not only to campaign for Fayemi but also to create  awareness as well as sensitise the people on the dividends of democracy so far made available to them.

The president said his administration had so far executed 13 projects  in the state, with no fewer than 29 contractors handling them.

The president assured  the people of the state of more dividends of democracy if they support Fayemi in the election.

Also addressing the crowd, the National Chairman of the party, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, said Fayemi  would redress all the wrongs of the Ayo Fayose administration.

He also gave an assurance that all the salaries and emoluments owed workers by the Fayose administration would be paid.

In attendance at the rally were 12 APC governors, seven serving ministers and national leaders of the party.

Ad

X whatsapp