Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress’ presidential candidate, has been dubbed a man of the people by party leader Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye.
Kennedy-Ohanenye, according to Naija News, was one of the APC candidates that resigned for Tinubu during the party’s National Convention on June 6 in Abuja.
The attorney claimed in an interview with The Punch on Tuesday that Tinubu has touched lives and helped people into political and government positions without asking for anything in return.
She said that the former governor of Lagos State had some ideological overlap with MKO Abiola, who had won the election on June 12, 1993.
However, the APC leader insisted that Tinubu has done more for the general populace than Abiola and has planted seeds in numerous locations around the nation.
Kennedy-Ohanenye claimed that the APC’s presidential candidate is well-known throughout the nation and has spent years preparing for the office.
She said: “The fact remains that they share so many similarities in terms of touching lives and helping people into government and political offices without coming for appreciation. They are the people the masses can easily relate to because of their “man of the people” posture.
“Left alone to me, I would probably say Tinubu did more than the winner of the June 12, 1993 election. Asiwaju is known across the length and breadth of the country. We know that he has prepared himself for this for so many years and sown seeds in different areas across the country.”
Kennedy-Ohanenye continued by stating that she was in favor of the APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket running for president in 2023.
Instead of being fixated on religion and ethnicity, she recommended Nigerians to pay attention to the qualifications and skills of candidates.
“I don’t hide it. Nigerians should learn to focus on the competence and capability of candidates instead of this obsession with religion and ethnicity. Tinubu’s wife, for instance, is a Christian, but he remains a Muslim.
“To me, the Muslim-Muslim ticket doesn’t matter. The truth is that you will require a Muslim ticket if you hope to get massive votes from the North. Even the late MKO Abiola chose a Muslim-Muslim ticket and he won convincingly.
“The margin was awesome as both Christians and Muslims voted for them because they knew that the masses would be touched by his philanthropic lifestyle,” she said.
