By Oluwaseun Sonde
2023 Presidential Aspirant and the leader of All Progressive Party APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmad Tinubu has said that the lamentation over Nigeria’s epileptic power supply, the scourge of banditry, among other challenges troubling the country is enough.
Lagos Ex-Governor, Tinubu speaking at a grand rally organised by youths under the aegis of Progressive Youth of South-West to declare their support for his presidential aspiration in Lagos on Saturday.
He said it was high time the Country’s challenges were fixed without continuous expression of excuses, while believed such excuses were not tenable, as Nigeria has all potentials to viably feed her population conveniently, through creative, visionary and committed leadership.
Tinubu who said Nigerians were tired of excuses and lamentations of the past over the numerous challenges, particularly epileptic power supply and banditry bedeviling the country, added that a united and banditry free Nigeria is possible.
Asiwaju described the teeming youths that filled the arena, as “bright and brilliant”, urged them to team up with him in his bid to change the narratives of Nigeria for the future which they represent.
He said: ‘’All you need is courage, determination and perseverance. If the YouTube alone has 2.9 billion people following it, including you all standing here, then Nigeria can excel. We can do it, you must develop the can-do-attitude.
“You must believe that this country is yours and you want to change the story. You must change the story of power, the story of banditry, you must change the story of tribalism.
‘’We as a nation can conveniently feed ourselves by being creative, visionary and committed; anybody who says we cannot, they can get out because it is voluntary.
“We cannot continue the lamentation of the past. We cannot continue with excuses of power failure. There is no nation that made rapid development without electricity.
"Give us light, and if we cannot be successful then you can abuse us. You cannot give us erratic light that is undependable and then blame us again that we are lazy.
‘’Nigeria, it is about time, we have enough gas to fire up electricity and supply the rest of Europe and make money, long term from it.
"You know it. We don’t want to bore you with it. When I started (as a governor), we used to pick dead bodies on the streets, but today Lagos is one of the cleanest, most progressive states in the Country.’’
He urged the youths to revalidate their Permanent Voters Cards and be ready to vote in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu in his keynote address appreciated the grand support for Tinubu, noted that youths will continue to be identified as critical stakeholders, just as he enjoined all delegates to the APC Primary to exercise their franchise wisely.
Youths from the States in the South-West region, including Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo and Oyo States converged in Lagos on Saturday in their large numbers to drum support for the aspiration of the APC National Leader.
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