Bola Tinubu, a presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress, has branded the opposition Peoples Democratic Party as the country’s agents of poverty.
Tinubu made this assertion on Wednesday, June 8, during his acceptance speech at Eagle Square.
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According to the APC leader, the PDP was to blame for all of Nigeria’s bloodshed and poverty.
He said;
They are the agents of poverty, violence and lies. Ask them how many abandoned projects they had; they can’t even count. They don’t even know arithmetic.
They are termites. We will not give them the keys to our savings. They will not rule this country. We will create wealth, we will turn Nigeria around. We will turn Nigeria to our Eldorado.
Furthermore, Tinubu said he had waited for the right moment to actualise his dream and serve the country in his best capacity, saying that with his emergence, the nation will begin to live to its potential.
The journey has started a long time and now we are here. The country’s greatness begins now.
Earlier, Tinubu was announced as victor on Wednesday, June 8, in a keenly-contested primaries during the special convention of the ruling party at the Eagle Square in the nation’s capital, Abuja.
A total of 2,322 ad-hoc delegates were drawn from the 35 states and FCT to participate in the primary to elect the APC flag bearer out of the aspirants jostling for the ticket. However, only 2,203 delegates were accredited to vote.
Tinubu polled 1,271 votes to emerge as the clear victor.
Result breakdown as follows:
1. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu – 1,271
2. Rotimi Amaechi – 316
3. Yemi Osinbajo – 235
4. Ahmed Lawan – 152
5. Yahaya Bello – 47
6. Dave Umahi – 38
7. Ben Ayade – 37
8. Ahmed Sani – 4
9. Christopher Onu – 1
10 Tunde Bakare – 0
11. Rochas Okorocha – 0
12. Jack Rich – 0
13. Chukwuemeka Nwajuba – 0
Void ballots: 13
Initially there were 23 presidential aspirants but at the special convention which began on Tuesday, June 7 a number of them stepped down from the race.
Ten aspirants had earlier withdrawn from the race including Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohnenye, Dr Felix Nicholas, former Gov. Godswill Akpabio, former Gov. Ibikunle Amosun, former Speaker Dimeji Bankole, Sen. Ajayi Boroffice, Gov. Muhammad Badaru, Sen. Ken Nnamani, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajuba, and Gov. Kayode Fayemi.
