{"id":100834,"date":"2022-10-30T23:44:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=100834"},"modified":"2022-10-30T23:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:44:04","slug":"tinubu-buhari-north-have-proved-that-nigeria-can-survive-its-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tinubu-buhari-north-have-proved-that-nigeria-can-survive-its-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu: Buhari, North have proved that Nigeria can survive its unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and APC governors in the north had proved that Nigeria could survive its unity and surmount challenges.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nTinubu stated this at the residence of Mr Reuben Fasoranti, leader of Afenifere, Yoruba Socio-cultural group, on Sunday in Akure.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nTinubu had visited the Afenifere leader to interact with him and\u00a0 present his presidential policy document and Action Plan for a Better Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nTinubu said that the visit was in fulfilment of an earlier promise he made to the Afenifere leader before the APC primaries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cI promised to come back after winning the APC ticket.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cI am here to thank all Yoruba leaders and also ask them to thank Buhari and northern governors for their steadfastness and for being promise-keepers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe North proved to me Nigeria can survive its unity. Some people wanted President Muhammadu Buhari to announce someone, but the President said no.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cHe insisted the process must go on democratically. The President said that anyone that would mess up the APC process would see his other side. He remained upright to the end.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cNorthern APC Governors resolved that the presidency must go to the South and, especially, South West. Governors Nasir El-Rufai, Abdullahi Ganduje and others supported me to the end.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe battle was tough and, at a point, I was in doubt. There were many rumors and I became confused over what to believe,\u201d he stated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAccording to him, Buhari also commended the process of the primaries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cBuhari told me I promoted his name with the way I won the primary election because the process was clean and transparent and nobody could accuse him of manipulating it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe president said I gave him credibility and I deserved to be President.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cWhen I asked him to nominate the Vice Presidential candidate, he said I should pick whoever I wanted and it is the reason I chose a competent man in Kashim Shettima who has never lost any election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cI particularly went for him because he had protected Christians in time of trouble in his state,\u201d he stated.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nImmediate past General Secretary of Afenifere, Chief Seinde Arogbofa, tasked \u00a0Tinubu to be a leader that would unite Nigeria and work for the progress and development of the country.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and APC governors in the north had proved that Nigeria could survive its unity and&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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