A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lanre Razaq, has called on the National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu to run for the presidency in 2023, stating that he has the qualities and the wisdom to turn around the economy of Nigeria.
The APC chieftain made this appeal in an interview with New Telegraph, on Thursday, August 29, where he described Tinubu’s contributions in Lagos State while he was governor as a “financial engineering foundation,” adding that the foundation has made it easy for other governors who came behind him to operate.
According to him: “The public is entitled to their opinion, but God knows that those who sacrificed to build up APC and for Buhari to become president, saved the country and will still see reason to do it again after Buhari’s tenure, and will even do it better.
“In the South-West today, the tallest person politically can’t be better than Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, so I will encourage and plead with him to run for the office of president. I know his antecedents, I know his pedigree and I know he can run affairs of Nigeria effectively and smoothly.
“Look at the financial engineering foundation he laid for Lagos State, which explains why governors that came after him found it easy to run affairs of the state.
“I believe that Tinubu can replicate what he did in Lagos State at the federal level, so will I appeal to him to run and I pray to God to give him good health, strength and wisdom to take Nigeria to another level, after Buhari might have taken it to the next level, so that Nigeria can maximize and develop her natural endowment.”