The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Tinubu, is still the finest choice for president in 2020, according to Dr. Edwin Obi, the Eze Ndigbo of Surulere Local Government in Lagos State.
Additionally, he stated that the Igbo community in the senatorial area would back APC candidates in the general election.
The Ndigbo in Lagos APC members were accompanied by Honourable Chidi Okoro, the council’s supervisor for health, when they paid the chairman of Itire-Ikate Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Honourable Ahmed Apatira, a visit at his palace.
The Igbo community in Surulere Local Government is entirely behind Senator Bola Tinubu’s bid for the presidency because he is the most electable of all the contenders, according to Obi.
All men are politicians. We’ve been involved in Lagos politics and are also politicians, so we’ll continue to back you whenever you need it.
Obi praised the head of the council for choosing Ndigbo people to fill leadership posts in the party and in his cabinet.
In response, Dr. Apatira reiterated his commitment to an inclusive government and said that there was no group within the APC in Itire-Ikate.
He said: “We are stronger in unity which is why we try as much as possible to absorb and have represented in our cabinet representatives of all ethnic groups in the community.
“We are one in Lagos APC; we are one in Itire-Ikate. I am totally against faction in any form; I run an all inclusive government.
“I want to appeal to the Ndigbo community to embrace peace and work assiduously for the success of our great party, the APC in 2023.
“On behalf of the good people of itire-ikate Local Council Development Area, I am happy to be here in your midst as a member of one big family.”
“Some of your members were part of the previous administration at different cadres, while some are also part of the current administration, so moving forward, we need all hands on deck because their experiences can’t be washed away.”
“We’ll make sure that dividends of democracy get across the nooks and crannies of the communities and as I said, Nigeria is one, Surulere is just a microcosmic of what the country is like, whether you are an Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba, you are a Nigerian.”
“If you are in this community, the dividends of democracy should get to everyone regardless of affiliation, tribe or race, that’s the administration I run and that’s the community I want to build, so that those coming after us can be proud of us,” he concluded.
