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2023: You can’t stop Tinubu from becoming president – Salvador warns Afenifere
A former chairman
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Moshood Salvador, has insisted
that pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, cannot stop the National
Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, from pursuing
his ambition to contest the 2023 presidential election.
Salvador, speaking
to journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, stated that those fighting Tinubu and any
other Yoruba leader from contesting were fighting a lost battle.
According to him,
if it is the wish of God for a Yoruba man to be the next president of Nigeria,
Afenifere leaders cannot stop him.
Salvador was
reacting to a statement reportedly made by a leader of the Afenifere, Chief Ayo
Adebanjo, that the 2023 presidency should be ceded to the South-East and that
Tinubu would be day-dreaming if he thought he would contest or be the president
in 2023.
He said the
argument of Adebanjo that the South-East has never produced a president was
false, as the first President of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, was from the
region.
The former PDP
chairman described the posture of the Yoruba leaders as “rabble-rousing,
inciting, offensive, illogical and terrible”.
Salvador reiterated
that it is the people and not the Afenifere leaders, that would decide who
becomes the President.
“These leaders
forget that Nigeria is practicing party politics and in a party politics, any
candidate can emerge.
“It is left for the
party and the presidential candidate to reach out to other tribes for support. It
is the people who now decide who becomes the president not an individual or
group of people,” he added.
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