Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, director of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council’s (APC-PCC) directorate of stakeholder relations, is confident that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win the presidential election by a landslide.
He said that Tinubu is far superior to any of the presidential aspirants of the opposition political parties while speaking at the Abuja inauguration of the 132-member directorate of stakeholder engagement.
Among the top presidential contenders in the nation are Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
According to him: “Luckily for us, our job is cut out for us. We have the most saleable product in the market today. There is no one candidate out there that is better than our own.
” Asiwaju Tinubu is an accomplished human being and a thoroughbred administrator and maverick politician. He has something to show from his glowing antecedent, he will not learn on the job.
“He also has a wide network of friends and associates everywhere in Nigeria, which makes our job of outreach very much easier. Though this election is literally a walkover for us, we should not leave anything to chance.
“We should not under-rate our opponents. We should work assiduously to make the margin of winning too wide that the victory will be massive and sweet.”
Ribadu enjoined members of the Directorate drawn from various fields of human endeavours to work as one family in an atmosphere of cordiality and respect for each other.
“To ease operation, we have decided to divide the operations of the directorate into North and South. This is done to ensure that our work is targeted and thorough,” he added.
“We are also adopting bottom-up and up-bottom approaches simultaneously through the creation of thematic area Units and leadership at Zonal and State levels.
“The work will be guided with clear terms of reference to guide our operations and assigned tasks. Immediately after this formal event we will discuss in detail and provide you with the necessary guidance to hit the ground running.”
APC’s founding chairman, Chief Bisi Akande who inaugurated the directorate expressed satisfaction with the performance of the AP. Led administration since May 29, 2015.
Akande remarked that Tinubu has the wherewithal to administer the country irrespective of its diverse and heterogeneous nature.
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