The LP flagbearer urged Nigerians to elect “credible, prudent and responsible leaders”.
“Those who are running overseas are suffering. We have been there. Anybody who tells you that you cannot do something, pray you can do it.”
Nigerians have a longstanding habit of voting along ethno-religious lines, with clerics and emirs, …wielding a strong influence among illiterate and impoverished masses.
Mr Tinubu said his opponents “have no iota of honesty in them” and speak without facts.
“So you can’t even count on the Yoruba votes totally. And Atiku in any case, PDP has always been strong in the South-West.”
“Picking a Christian running mate would have been politically easier,” explained Mr TInubu. “But the easy way is rarely the right one.”
The campaign spokesman said the candidate incidentally shared an address with notorious cocaine dealers in the 1990s.
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Nigerians have long insisted that the presidential candidate should come clean on his involvement in the case, which saw him forfeit up to $460,000 to American authorities in 1993.
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Mr Tinubu’s absence from the town hall meeting is the latest in his series of purposeful boycotts of public gatherings aimed at engaging directly with candidates for public office.
“If there is any ‘emi lokan’ that is wrong, it is the ’emilokan of emilokan’ because ‘ko’kan’ (Not his turn),” Mr Utomi declared.
