Women Group plans support Walk For APC Presidential Candidate
By Sekinat Salam-Opebiyi, Abeokuta
A socio-political group, Yoruba Women For Tinubu is set to stage a one million sensitisation walk for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu in Ogun State.
The planned walk is coming as different Socio-political groups are giving support to their candidates and parties in preparation for campaign activities which will begin on September 28th, 2022 for the 2023 elections.
The Tinubu support walk is slated for Wednesday, the 21st of September, 2022 by 10 am (local time) and will see women walk through major streets in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.
In a statement signed by its convener, Comrade Toyo Busayo, the group said; “It is ready to mobilise massive votes for the emergence of the APC presidential flag-bearer Bola Tinubu as President of Nigeria in 2023.
“The movement is set out of the need for a desirable Nigeria where electricity consistency, adequate safety of lives and properties, good health, good management of natural resources, and employment, which will foster sustainable development in the societies is guaranteed.
It reiterated that with its membership cut across the 119,972 Polling units, 8809 Wards, and 774 Local government areas in Nigeria, it is determined set out to deliver on the mandate of the ruling APC.
“It is on record that Senator Bola Tinubu impacted and touched many lives when he served as Governor of Lagos State, from 1999 – 2007. He did the same as Senator representing Lagos West during the third republic and continued till now irrespective of tribe, ethnicity and religion hence the need to pay him back with massive votes.
“Tinubu is, therefore, the choice of a good citizen of our country Nigeria both resident and diaspora.. He worked to build the people and position them without considering their tribes or religious status,” the statement read
The group, therefore, call on all women to come out to elect Senator Tinubu as the next president of Nigeria in 2023 and to emulate the gesture of other women of substance who have done similar things in the past.
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