Shina Peller’s presidential campaign posters flood Lagos
Campaign posters rallying support for federal lawmaker Shina Peller were seen on major highways in Lagos on Thursday.
Mr Peller, currently representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency of Oyo State, had mouthed his interest for higher office earlier in February during a programme he hosted in Ibadan.
He had charged the youths who gathered at the event tagged “Progressive Youth Festival” held at Liberty Stadium, Ibadan, to stop complaining but take a bold step by joining political parties to contest elections to effect the change they desired.
“It is time Nigerian youths took the responsibility for rebuilding this nation,” Mr Peller, son of a famous Ibadan magician, Professor Peller, had declared. “We should stop complaining and start the process of rebuilding our nation because we don’t have any other place we can call our own.”
Earlier, the Nigeria Youths in Politics (NYP) in December 2021, declared its unalloyed support for the presidential ambition of Mr Peller ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
The group’s vice president Olufowobi Desmond had said “our mandate is to support young candidate in 2023, and Hon. Shina Abiola Peller is presently our candidate.”
“Because there is no single Nigerian who is more interested in the peace, unity and development of the country than him (Shina Peller),” he added.
Peoples Gazette could not immediately obtain comments from Mr Peller as calls made to his phone lines went unanswered while he is yet to respond to text messages.
Should Mr Peller confirm his intention to run for Nigeria’s presidency in 2023, he would be up against his supposed political benefactor and former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu and also Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, all of whom, like him, are from the South-West.
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