By; OLADELE ADEDAYO, Ado-Ekiti
As the 2023 Presidential polls gather momentum the Jagabanists Nationwide Support Group (JNSG), has assured that criticisms from oppositions would not in any way debar the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) from recording 80 per cent of total votes cast during the 2023 polls for the former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The political group is rooting for the presidential aspiration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate,
The group said the barrage of insults being hurled at Tinubu, by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidates, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and Peter Obi respectively, won’t derail the party’s focus from the set target to ensure that APC wins with wide margin.
The group’s National Coordinator, Barr. Temitope Omotayo, gave the assurance in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Tuesday, during a solidarity rally held to mobilise support for Tinubu in Ekiti State.
Omotayo stated that Tinubu ranks taller and higher above the duo of Atiku and Obi in their contributions to the Nigeria’s democratic growth, exuding confidence that the former Lagos Governor will triumph in the 2023 poll.
The legal practitioner added that the kernel objective behind the formation of the group is to canvass votes for Tinubu across the 774 local governments and 176,846 units across the country, describing the insults from opposition as mere “noisemaking” the APC won’t allow to neither derail nor distract its focus.
Omotayo however enjoined Nigerians to vote for a man, who has a rich and intimidating political and administrative credentials , rather than playing into the hands of those he described as ” neophytes and inexperienced” that will only turn the running of the nation into “trial and error”.
He said: “We have been following his political life and antecedents, especially how he contributed to the nation building from NADECO era. We are not going to engage the opposition at the pedestrian level. We are only focused on our major goal, which is winning the presidency.
“This man, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has all his businesses here in Nigeria. He has mentored and developed many politicians, leaders and youth. We are targeting 0ver 80% of the total votes cast in 2023 for him to emerge victorious.
“We are supporting and mobilising for him because he has the vision and he showed this when he was given the opportunity as a Lagos State Governor . Under him, infrastructural development, legal and security developement were utmost. Many of the states copied their economic blueprints from Lagos.
“This is the kind of leader we need. A visionary and well -endowed one. One who can build,not those who can pillage and plunder”.
Speaking about the membership of the group,Omotayo said: “We have over 60,000 members nationwide and another 17,000 social media allies. We have coordinators across the nation. We are visible in all the six geopolitical zones, working with people of like-minds.
“The choice of former Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima as the Vice Presidential candidate also lent credence to the fact that Tinubu was ready for governance. You can see the transformations that were going on in Lagos and Borno States.
“This is not a mere social media group. We have commenced house-to-house, market-to-market, church-to-church and mosque-to-mosque campaigns for APC.
“It is 1000% sure that Tinubu will win. the APC candidate is like MTN, everywhere you go. Asiwaju’s name is reverberating in the Northeast, Southwest, North Central, Souuthsouth and everywhere, unlike others, who are ethnic champions”.
The State Coordinator of the group, Akinlua Oyenike, added that their coordinators in all the 16 councils, 177 wards and 2445 units of Ekiti have commenced aggressive mobilisation for Tinubu ahead of the polls.
