By Chinwe Imo-Eze Onwosi
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday, flagged off the party’s presidential campaign in Ebonyi State and said he will protect businesses of the Igbo.
Tinubu spoke addressing stakeholders and teeming supporters of the party at the rally that took place at the Pa Ngele Oruta township stadium, Abakaliki, Thursday.
The former Lagos governor also said he would not tolerate any form of discrimination against the Igbo people.
“I believe in the entrepreneurial spirit of the Igbo. I encouraged a lot of Igbo businesses and investments in Lagos and will even do more if I become president,” he said.
“If elected, there will be no discrimination. Igbo interests will be respected and protected. I will also encourage policies to aid commerce and support south-east states to reach their full potential.
“We want to progress; we want peace, we will talk to all agitators. These things are not done by conflict, it is by sitting around the table to complain. It is not using the fight to do; it is by discussion, by being intellectually involved, by electing visionary leaders to lead the crusade for the development of the zone. You will have it in May, if you elect me.”
“I will work with businessmen and women and encourage them to make the south-east the Taiwan of Africa.”.
He enjoined APC supporters to use their Permanent Voters Card, PVCs and ensure victory for the party in 2023 general elections.
Tinubu who described PDP’s 16 years of rulership as a failure, stated that his administration will address issues revolving around Education, transportation, security, power supply and industrialization.
“16 years of PDP government we have had no blinker electricity. They spend more than 16 billion dollars, they forget that transmission line is a super highway to generate electricity. We don’t want to go backward, we are progressives; we will move Nigeria forward, we will do the right thing, we will make southeast of Taiwan of Nigeria. We can do it; it’s a matter of thinking.
Also, the governor of Ebonyi state David Umahi who equally spoke during the rally, said Ebonyi state has fed well under APC government, and called on the citizens of the state to be Obidient to the Presidential candidate of the party, Bola Tinubu.
He tasked the people to vote massively for the Presidential candidate, Tinubu and Guber candidate of the state, Francis Nwifuru as well as other candidates of the party, come 2023 general election.
Tinubu arrived the South East state in company of his running mate, Kashim Shettima, the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, the APC National Chairman, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, represented by the Deputy National Chairman, South, Chief Emma Eneukwu, former APC Governorship candidate, Anambra State, Sen. Andy Uba, the Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Edward Ubosi, Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri, Demeji Bankole, former Speaker House of Representatives, and other members of the Presidential Campaign Council.
