2023: Tinubu is Healthy and Strong, Says Ex-Minister Adebayo Shittu

2023: Tinubu is Healthy and Strong, Says Ex-Minister Adebayo Shittu

  • APC chieftain, Adebayo Shittu says there is nothing to worry about concerning Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu's health
  • Many Nigerians have been pointing to the fact that the APC presidential candidate does not look healthy
  • The former minister of communications, however, says Tinubu does not have any healthy challenge and he is ready for the task ahead

FCT, Abuja - A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former minister of communications, Adebayo Shittu, has said that the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, does not have any health challenge.

Tinubu
Shittu says Tinubu's health should not be up for debate in the first place. Photo credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei
Source: Getty Images

Shittu told Daily Trust newspaper that:

“Tinubu is as healthy and strong as anybody. Let me tell you, when the current president was sick, a lot of people took him for the dead. Today I can assure you he is stronger than you and I. He doesn't use walking stick, he is not aided, he is walking so is Asiwaju Tinubu.

Read also

2023: Christians’ll get key appointments in Tinubu’s cabinet, APC stakeholders reveal

“So you can imagine the difference in age between Asiwaju and President Buhari.”

PAY ATTENTION: Follow us on Instagram - get the most important news directly in your favourite app!

The APC chieftain noted that aspiring to lead a nation is not about age, arguing that it is about dynamism, exposure, among others.

Tinubu, Shettima coalition inaugurates Ondo executive members

Meanwhile, The Guardian newspaper reports that the Asiwaju Tinubu-Shettima Coalition for Good Governance (ATSCGG) has inaugurated its executives in Akure, Ondo state, charging them to deliver the state for the APC.

According to the report, the state executive members, drawn from the 18 local councils of the state, are also members of the 110 coalition groups that merged for Tinubu-Shettima ticket.

2023: APC stakeholders say Tinubu will get 80% votes in southwest

In a related development, members of the Next Level Consolidation Forum, a Tinubu support group, have predicted that the presidential candidate of the APC will get 80 percent of southwest votes in the 2023 general elections.

Read also

PDP crisis: Wike, Ortom, Ikpeazu fly out to UK again over 2023 talks

Led by its national coordinator, Oladosu Oladipo, the APC stakeholders gave this assertion at a meeting held in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

They hinged their optimism on what they described as the southwest people’s appreciation of Tinubu’s remarkable performance as Lagos governor and his mentorship of several great Nigerians.

2023: Nigerian youths will set the agenda for Tinubu, says Yahaya Bello

On his part, Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has said that the youths in the country will set the agenda for Tinubu if he is elected as the next president.

Governor Bello said the move is imperative because the youths own the future.

The Kogi state governor further stressed that Tinubu has the pedigree and capacity to lead the country out of its current socio-economic woes.

Source: Legit.ng

Authors:
Jerrywright Ukwu avatar

Jerrywright Ukwu Jerrywright Ukwu is an Abuja-based senior political/defence correspondent. He is a graduate of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos and the International Institute of Journalism in Abuja. He is also a member of the Nigeria Union of Journalists. He spends his leisure-time reading history books. He can be reached via email at jerrywright39@yahoo.com.