2023: Big Blow As Arewa Group Dumps Atiku, Endorses Tinubu

2023: Big Blow As Arewa Group Dumps Atiku, Endorses Tinubu

  • The combined group of Arewa communities in the six southwest states have endorsed the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, the APC candidate in the 2023 presidential election
  • The leader of the group, Sa’adu Yusuf Dandare, promises a door-to-door campaign for Tinubu at the inaugural meeting of the southwest Arewa
  • The group endorsement came at a time when the strong opponent of Tinubu is one of the leader of the Arewa in Nigeria

The Arewa community in the Southwest region comprising Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti States has declared support for the presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

They said Tinubu’s emergence as the next President is crucial considering the spate of insecurity across the nation, The Nation reported.

Bola Tinubu/Atiku Abubakar/APC/PDP/Arewa/Southwest Arewa/2023 elections
Southwest Arewa endorses Tinubu for 2023 presidency, dumps Atiku Photo Credit: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar
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They urged Nigerians to vote for competence ahead of religion, saying that there is a need for Nigerians to unite for the victory of Tinubu/Shetima tickets and other APC governorship candidates.

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Southwest Arewa communities promise door-to-door campaign for Tinubu

Speaking at the inaugural meeting of All Progressive Congress (APC) Southwest Arewa Community and Declaration of Door-to-Door Campaign, Chairman of APC Southwest Arewa’s Community, Sa’adu Yusuf Dandare, said the community will mobilise massively for TInubu.

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“We, the leadership of the Arewa Community, also have it as a point of agenda to swift into action in deeply regulating our timing population to avoid any bad element coming into our long age settlement to create any evil act while been resolute to legitimately protect our law-abiding members that fall into the victim of circumstance.
“This inaugural meeting has boosted the confidence and morale of all our timing members across the region and we have been tasked to immediately set up a strategy team to implement our major pattern which is the “DOOR to Door” campaign. Over time, this has been identified as our best strategy for delivering huge votes for our dear party across our different settlements in the southwest.”

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Another trouble springs up in PDP as powerful leader reveals region that must produce next chairman

Legit.ng earlier reported that the former deputy national chairman of the PDP, Chief Bode George, has raised some strong arguments about the crisis rocking the party.

Bode Goerge pointed out that the refusal of the party's national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to resign is an indication that southern members of the party do not matter.

the PDP stalwart maintained that the party leaders in the southern region cannot convince the electorate to vote for a party that has no southwestern member in its hierarchy.

Source: Legit.ng

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng