Businessman and philanthropist Femi Otedola on Tuesday said
he prays that Bola Tinubu will get his heart desire to be Nigeria president in
the 2023 election.
Tinubu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC) alongside former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party’s Peter Obi are among the leading
candidates hoping to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari after next year’s poll.
Otedola in a tweet said it is always exciting to spend time
with Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor from 1999 to 2007.
“I am always excited visiting my Great Friend Asiwaju Ahmed
Bola Tinubu,” Otedola tweeted on Tuesday.
“May God grant him his heart’s desire in becoming the
President of this great Nation.”
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has
scheduled the Nigeria presidential election to hold Saturday, 25 February 2023.
While PDP’s Atiku has named Delta State governor Ifeanyi
Okowa as his running mate, Tinubu said he is still in search of his vice
presidential candidate but has named Kabir Ibrahim Masari, a Katsina
politician, as a placeholder for his running mate to beat INEC deadline in
June.
Masari, a former National Welfare Secretary of the APC
during the era of the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole- led NWC, was nominated pending
the conclusion of the consultation on the issue of running of mate by various
APC groups.
Meanwhile, APC governors from the Northwest geopolitical
zone are insisting maintained that Tinubu should choose his deputy from the
zone.
The party stakeholders from the zone have, however, pledged
to ensure the victory of Tinubu in the 2023 presidential poll.
Leaders from the zone also resolved to aggregate their
interests and engage Tinubu. The decision of the Northwest APC leaders comes on
the heels of ongoing consultations by Tinubu with critical stakeholders on the
choice of his running mate.
The parley by the group comprising the party’s governors,
gubernatorial candidates and ministers who met in Kaduna State was aimed at
prevailing on Tinubu to cede the Vice Presidency slot to the zone, assuring
that the zone will replicate the electoral feat of the party in 2015 next year.
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