APC Lagos rally: I cannot be killed, Tinubu declares

 

• Promises Investment In Education, Health, Infrastructure

• Urges Nigerians To Reject PDP

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, burst the bubbles of those who fantasise with the morbid fascination of seeing him dead.

At a rally in support of his presidential bid, organised by the Lagos State government, at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, the former Lagos State Governor assured his supporters that, “I cannot be killed.”

As he has done of late, he seized the opportunity to knock his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, urging would-be voters to once again reject the “selfish Atiku Abubakar, who has been running for the Presidency since 1999.”

He, however, promised to form a progressive government with massive investment in education, health, infrastructure, and job creation if elected as president, even as he assured Nigerians of better days ahead.

Also yesterday, The Asiwaju Progressive Movement (TAPM), one of Tinubu’s support groups, while reacting to a statement credited to former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, stated that the 2023 general election will not be about religion, but about competence in leadership.

An insight into why the ruling APC zoned its presidential slot to the South, was also offered yesterday, by Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State, while receiving hundreds of supporters of the PDP into the APC fold.

According to him, the decision was based on the need to entrench equity and fairness in the country. Addressing a large group of party faithful at the stadium, which included the governors of Kano, Kastina, Kaduna, Kebbi, Kwara, Jigawa, Ekiti, Ogun, Osun as well as members of the National Assembly and Ministers of Works and Housing; Information and Culture; Sports and Youth, Tinubu expressed delight that his presidential bid is being fortified by the APC functionaries at all levels.

Tinubu, whose speech was interlaced with Yoruba songs said his mother always sing a song, which he cherished so much, “Dagunro o se pa, ipa te pa tete, e ma pa dagunro, dagunro o se pa,” which literarily means, “Dagunro is unkillable. The manner of death you rained on Spinach, never visit it on Dagunro.”

The APC presidential flag bearer, again, used the opportunity of the rally to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for his commitment to the development of Nigeria and Lagos State.

He said, “I specially thank President Muhammadu Buhari for the unprecedented federal support and commitment to Lagos State. We have come a long way from Presidents whose sole obsession was to capture or conquer Lagos in do-or-die fashion, to a President who loves the state greatly and is keen to see it do very well.

“Lagos has benefited tremendously in terms of infrastructure development, whether it is the Lagos-Ibadan Railway line, or the Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonsoki Expressway, the revamped National Theatre, the new International Airport Terminal or the support that has made the Lekki Deep Sea Port possible and the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Plant, as well as the Red Line of the Lagos Metro, which is sharing part of the Federal corridor,” he said.