By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
With few days to this year’s Presidential polls, campaign for the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday, received a boost in Ibadan with donation of a two-storey edifice as secretariat for the campaign council.
Speaking while taking possession of the donated edifice, Director for Contact and Mobilisation, South-West of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Alhaji Mutiu Are, who led campaign directors from the six states of the South-West said the donation was an indication of total support for Asiwaju Tinubu by the entire South-West.
Alhaji Are stressed that he was only contacted by the donour who told him that he was supporting the campaign for Tinubu’s Presidency purely because of his belief that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu would run a government that would bring greater peace, unity and prosperity to every part of Nigeria.
He maintained that he was really moved with the level of enthusiasm and commitment shown by the donor who did not want to be named and was still evidently mobilising people across the country in support of the Tinubu-Shettima presidential ambition.
According to him, the building, to serve as the South West Secretariat for the Tinubu-Shettima Campaign, would help in enhancing the council organization and expansion of the activities of the campaign to enable it attend more effectively with myriads of support groups, associations and volunteers, daily indicating interests in the Tinubu Presidential bid.
“This beautiful edifice has been donated by one of the strongest believers in the Tinubu dream to aid the contact and mobilization committee in the South West Region”, he said.
Alhaji Are added, ” we have just inspected the building. We have also done sundry checks on it and we found it excellent in all aspects.
The location, here, Oke Bola, close to the residence of our great leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, is symbolic”.
” You know of all the candidates, it is only Bola Tinubu that has been consistently unswerving as a progressive politician. He has been for all his life following the footsteps of Chief Awolwo, playing progressive and development politics. Now having our South West campaign secretariat nearby Awolowo house is very exciting”.
Alhaji Are stressed further, ” my committee members and I are fascinated about it. This building is suitable for the purposes of our campaigns. We are very grateful to the donor“
Secretary of the campaign committee, Honorable (Mrs.) Wunmi Ohwovoriole, while speaking expressed happiness with the quality and symbolic location of the building close to the house of the late Chief Awolowo whom she described as the bastion of progressive politics in Nigeria.
“Talking about the location of the building, it is also instructive; it is located in the heart of Ibadan. It is accessible and quite significant that we have such a big office here. The donor has been magnanimous enough to give us such a place and we are very grateful to him,” she said.
Honorable Ohwovoriole said the facility would benefit the work of the secretariat of the campaign council, especially in the coordination of the hundreds of groups, associations and volunteers working tirelessly towards the success of the APC presidential candidate.
