November 14, 2021

…Targets 50,000 supporters

By Egufe Yafugborhi

MEMBERS of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state, predominantly of the Sen Magnus Abe’s faction have inaugurated 2023 Bola Ahmed Tinubu Support(BATS) in the state on strong conviction that the former Lagos state governor is most “eminently qualified” to be Nigeria’s next President.

At the BATS Rivers chapter inauguration in Port Harcourt Sunday, Sen Wilson Ake alleged that 2020 EndSARS crisis was instigated by detractors who would not want the former APC leading founder to become president in the next elections.

Ake, Chairman of the group’s Steering Committee stated, “For someone to work and another person will come and eat is not of God. We are supporting Tinubu because we know that he is eminently qualified, and he has worked so hard to see APC win.

“We do not have that wicked spirit in us. That is why we are saying we must pay back Tinubu what he has put into APC. We are not against anybody. Anybody who wants to try should go ahead, but they should not use the question that they must eliminate Tinubu to succeed.

“They went far as starting EndSARS in Lagos. EndSARS ended up by burning Tinubu’s hotel, his television house, his newspaper house when Tinubu is not in government. You can see the target is how do we decimate this man. After you have worked so hard, then people will say you should go to the back and sit and the good man and good woman will clap for such thing.”

On reservations about Tinubu’s age as a weakness against his presidential bid, Ake, three terms Rivers Senator, said, “When they talk about age I begin to ask, Buhari is the oldest man in government, both President, Governor and everything. Can you say any of them has performed better than Buhari now, because he is old?

“If they are now saying that Tinubu is old, it them means that they are regretting brightening Buhari, that is what they are trying to say, so they should come out opening to say that.

“Looking at all the state Governors, they are within the age bracket of 30 and 50. Is there any magic coming from them? Instead of them to look out for quality, they are emphasising age. That shows we are not serious in this country.

“Anybody using the question of age to attack, disqualify Tinubu is merely playing the Ostrich and we cannot allow that to distract us.”It is only fair and respect for justice if we should say, Tinubu should be the next president of Nigeria.”

Coordinator of Rivers BATS, Chief Tony Okocha, noted, “We know he (Tinubu) has the midas touch. We know he is competent, experienced and we know he is detribalized. So if we have a nationalist like that why won’t we support him?”

Okocha stressed that the mission of BATS in Rivers is to mobilize 50,000 APC supporters in the state to promote Tinubu for the prime position in 2023.

Zeezy81:
Always on the wrong side. Wait until the Fulani masters take a decision. Trust me they will never leave out their adopted son(Rotimi Amaechi).

Zeezy81:
Always on the wrong side. Wait until the Fulani masters take a decision. Trust me they will never leave out their adopted son(Rotimi Amaechi).

EcoBrick:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/11/rivers-apc-abes-camp-inaugurates-tinubu-support-group/



Mynd44
Lalasticlala

JaroMan:

Tinubu is smart but not wise. He has continued to burn bridges to the detriment of the party. And he's been doing this against foundational members of the party.
He did it to Rochas using Adams Oshiomole via Gulak.
He did it to former Zamfara gov
He did to Ngige in Anambra.
The party is just living on life support and keen observers know this. That is why there seems to be silence in the party.

JaroMan:

Tinubu is smart but not wise. He has continued to burn bridges to the detriment of the party. And he's been doing this against foundational members of the party.
He did it to Rochas using Adams Oshiomole via Gulak.
He did it to former Zamfara gov
He did to Ngige in Anambra.
The party is just living on life support and keen observers know this. That is why there seems to be silence in the party.

EcoBrick:



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/11/rivers-apc-abes-camp-inaugurates-tinubu-support-group/

oyatz:


If you are wise, you ought to have known that it's wrong to assume that every conflict within the APC is caused by Tinubu.


In politics, it's natural to have conflicts and in Nigerian political parties, where people are more interested in their self interests than anything else, conflicts is very common.

All the people you mentioned experienced conflicts in their HOME Chapters of the APC due to clashes of interests with other stakeholders in their home chapters of the party.


Wherever there's a conflict in a party, alignments and re-arrangements of polical players occur naturally. This has nothing to with Tinubu.

The phenomena are the same even in APGA, PDP, Labour Party etc.

Ttalk:
They will soon flood this threat to say 2023 is our turn, as if Nigeria presidency is turn by turn.

While they at that, they would analyse how North will not leave their own, how North will vote Atiku.

Then ended the conversation by saying APC should zone presidency to them while pushing PDP where they are in the majority to the North

I have never seen a delusional person as these Jokers

EcoBrick:



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/11/rivers-apc-abes-camp-inaugurates-tinubu-support-group/

PrinceOfLagos:
[s][/s]Everybody wan cash out

The Andy Ubah "Chop and clean " about to play out on Tinubu

I hope Tinubu won't ask for refund of campaign funds after spending all the ill gotten money in the bullion van on this sycophants giving him fake support and false hope ?

We go see [s][/s]

iyke2frankeze:


Seriously we need to get rid of rotational presidency and focus on competences. Even a Northerner can be voted provided the person is good enough.