2023 Election: Tinubu Makes Fresh Promises To Muslim Leaders in Kano, Asks Them To Preach Unity

2023 Election: Tinubu Makes Fresh Promises To Muslim Leaders in Kano, Asks Them To Preach Unity

  • The APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has promised to be just and fair if elected as president in the 2023 election
  • Tinubu, who is a former governor of Lagos state, promised to tackle the challenges of the country when he addressed Muslim leaders from Northwest in Kano on Tuesday
  • The former governor of Lagos state then urged the religious leaders to preach peace and harmony and urged their followers to desist from disunity and division

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Kano state - Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has assured Muslim leaders that he will display fair, just leadership to all Nigerians if elected president in the 2023 election.

This was disclosed in a statement signed by Tunde Rahman, the head of Tinubu's media office and sent to Legit.ng on Tuesday, January 3.

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The presidential hopeful also promised to tackle Nigeria's challenges on all fronts while speaking with Northwest Muslim leaders in Kano.

What Tinubu promises Muslim leaders

Tinubu then urged the Muslim leaders to ensure they sue and preach for peace and harmony among their followers instead of disunity and division.

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He said this is the only way the country could experience the development that it really needs.

The statement reads in part:

“They cannot win with the truth. So, they will try to win with a lie. But a lie never wins in the end. Those they cannot beat with honesty, they seek to beat them with untruth and falsity. They want to turn servants of God into preachers of division and hateful sentiment.”

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Tinubu further stated that he had demonstrated a sense of unity and oneness so far in his campaigns and promised to continue to do so.

The former governor of Lagos state promised to conduct himself if elected to uphold the values and ideals of fairness and justice, adding that he would not deviate from speaking facts and truths, policies and programmes.

He reminded the religious leader of his record of his Lagos state and his ability to recreate the same record as Nigeria's president.

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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