The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has received the support of major supporters, and kinsmen of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
OsunDaily News reports that Jonathan’s kinsmen, who are members of the Citizens Network For Peace and Development in Nigeria (CNPDN), gave the support at a news briefing in Abuja on Saturday.
Addressing journalists, the National Secretary of the group, Francis Okereke Wainwei, said they are backing Tinubu’s presidential bid because he firmly believes in the philosophy of building the people to build the nation.
Wainwei said Tinubu has the intellectual sagacity, capacity, competence, political experience, nationwide acceptability, and a knack for identifying and recruiting competent people.
He added that the group’s support for Tinubu was in line with the declarations of both the APC Northern Governors’ forum and the Southern Governors’ Forum that the South should produce the next President.
The statement reads: “We have examined the capacity, competence, political experience, and nationwide acceptability of the presidential candidates from Southern Nigeria, and we discovered that Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress tops the other candidates.
“Our choice of Bola Tinubu is strongly premised on his wealth of political experience, intellectual sagacity, a knack for identifying and recruiting competent people, and the capacity to mobilize human and material resources for the accelerated and holistic development of the country.
“We believe strongly that the next president of this country should be someone who firmly believes in the philosophy of ‘building the people to build the nation’, he should be a people-oriented president.
“Tinubu fits perfectly for the kind of president Nigeria needs in the next dispensation.”
