Nigerians have been urged to vote for All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the 2023 elections.
The Chief Press Secretary to Osun state Governor, Ismail Omipidan, who stated this in Kaduna, said among the frontline presidential candidates that have been in government, Tinubu is the choice presidential candidate because he is competent, credible and the one that has consistently build people around him into leaders in various spheres of politics and governance.
Omipidan, who served as chairman of Alhaji Liadi Olapade Annual Memorial Lecture organised by Ansar-ud-Deen Society, Kaduna Branch in honour of it’s late chairman, told journalists in an interview on the sidelines of the event that, “Nigerians have always complained of bad leaders, but some of us have also contributed to the situation by not coming out to vote. Let’s all come out en-mass to vote and vote for good leaders.
“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is my preferred candidate and the reasons are obvious. Look at competence, look at credibility. Some people will say Tinubu is old but we take after the United States in democracy and their leader is Joe Biden, if he is not too old to run the affairs of America, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is not too old to lead Nigeria. If you look at the track records of Tinubu and Sen. Kashim Shettima, they speak for them, look at Lagos state, look at Borno state, they are signposts of how a state should be properly run.
“So, if Tinubu and Shettima have done creditably well in the states they have been opportune to have governed, I believe very strongly that they will do well as our leaders in Nigeria. So, I urge Nigerians to vote Tinubu and Shettima come February next year. All the frontline presidential candidates have been in government at one point or the other. If you take a critical look at them, only Tinubu has been very consistent and has an army of Nigerians that he has mentored over the years. Peter Obi was governor in Anambra for eight years, Asiwaju was governor in Lagos for eight years.
“If you talk about the Vice President, he is from the Asiwaju school of politics, same with the immediate past governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi, same with Minister of Interior, same with Ben Akabueze who is in the Debt Management Office and many others. Can you tell me one such leader that any of the other presidential candidates have mentored? Again, since the return of democracy in 1999, only Asiwaju has been consistent in his choice of political party, all others have moved from one, two, three parties to another and consistency is very key in determining the success of anything in life.”
Speaking on the event, the Osun CPS said, “this is our way of immortalizing late Alhaji Liadi Olapade, a chartered accountant per excellence, a community and religious leader. He was the Chairman of Ansar-ud-Deen Society, Kaduna Branch, Chairman of Muslim Council of Nigeria in Kaduna and leader of the Yoruba community all at the same time, he was also one time chairman of Osun State Indigenes Association. He consistently showed that Islam is indeed a beautiful religion, by the way he related with people and by the way he conducted his affairs. The memorial lecture is our own way of ensuring that his legacies live on”.
The Guest Speaker, Sheikh AbdulKabir Ibrahim AlMisry, tasked Nigerians to offer good deeds and be good to people that they come across, so that they will leave good legacies that they will be remembered with.
“We are responsible for our challenges. Sheikh AlSharawi said ‘wherever we have a poor Muslim that means others have taken his share’. If you can’t give money, help others, be generous with your behaviour, be jovial with people, smile to people. Despite all the surveillances that we have in Nigeria, it took nine years to discover that our crude oil was being siphoned!,” he said.
Chairman Ansar-ud-Deen Society Kaduna Branch, Alhaji Saburideen Adeyemi, said the annual memorial lecture was to immortalise Alhaji Liadi Olapade and showcase his legacies to the world to enable the young ones and the elderly ones alike emulate one thing or the other from it.
