Oluremi Tinubu, a senator for the Lagos Central Senatorial District and the wife of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, has called for increased support for her husband’s ambition, arguing that Nigeria is too crucial to be in the hands of amateurs.
In addition to calling on young people to mobilise their peers for the success of the presidential campaign, Tinubu made a forceful case for women and youths in her welcome speech at the Progresive Young Leaders Summit on Sunday, September 18, 2022 in Abuja.
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The APC’s vice presidential candidate Nana Shettima attended the event in Tinubu’s place. Shettima acknowledged the importance of young people in advancing the party and advised them to focus on grassroots mobilisation.
“Young people have been in the forefront of promoting our party and our candidates right from the formation of the APC,” she remarked. The numerous youth-led efforts supporting the candidacies of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima can already be sensed even as the campaigns have yet to begin.
“I hereby urge all our youth leaders and youth-focused support groups, many of whom are represented here today, to ensure that efforts to mobilise support for the Tinubu/Shettima presidential campaign are targeted at the grassroots – right from our polling units to our wards and local governments – as that is where the real voters are.”
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Tinubu also stated that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has a track record of supporting young people and urged the party’s teeming youths to engage their peers with a view to ensuring that they make the right choice at the polls.
“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a track record of uplifting and supporting young people, and I am confident that this will not change when he becomes President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Engage your peers so that they understand that the decision of who to vote for is one that must be taken seriously. Nigeria is too important to be left to people without sufficient experience, a clear progressive vision, and a verifiable track record of leadership that delivers meaningful results,” she said.
