2023: Yoruba group pushes for Tinubu presidency

The National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu could have a direct route to represent the party in the 2023 general elections after he bagged support from a pan-Yoruba group, Young Patriots Movement. (YPM).

Tinubu, a two-time governor of Lagos State has been tipped to bring power back to the SouthWest by the party faithful. Many believe he is the right man to lead the country after claims of his impact as governor of Lagos between 1999-2007.

In a summit organized Thursday, January 22, 2021, in Ibadan, the stakeholders insisted the region must produce President Muhammadu Buhari's successor.

Daily Trust reports that the southwest governors and other Yoruba leaders failed to attend after they were informed it was meant to push the agenda of a Tinubu presidency. Governor Gboyega Oyetola reportedly sent a representative.

The national coordinator of YPM, Oladosu Oladipupo, asked northern stakeholders to respect the pre-2015 general election agreement to return power to the south in 2023.

He also asked APC leaders to consider 2023 as the time to repay for the struggle and sacrifices Tinubu has made for the party, Legit.ng reports.

Also speaking, the APC chairman in Lagos, Tunde Balogun, dismissed opposition to Tinubu’s presidency, saying the former Lagos state governor represents the hope and the future of Nigeria.

Buhari will never support Tinubu, says LamidoMeanwhile, ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has said that President Buhari will never support Tinubu.

The former governor said this during the inauguration of the Jigawa state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reconciliation committee in Dutse on Wednesday, January 20.

Tinubu ‘most qualified’ to succeed Buhari in 2023, says Oluwo of IwoIn another report, the Oluwo of Iwo in Osun state, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, has described Tinubu as the most qualified politician to succeed President Buhari in 2023.

The monarch made the comment while speaking at the launching of the South-West Agenda in Osogbo, Osun state on Tuesday, January 19.