{"id":122891,"date":"2021-12-19T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=122891"},"modified":"2021-12-19T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T15:51:19","slug":"2023-tinubu-should-support-south-east-candidate-for-presidency-von-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/19\/2023-tinubu-should-support-south-east-candidate-for-presidency-von-dg\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Tinubu should support south-east candidate for presidency &#8211; VON DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu has stated that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu should support a south-east candidate for presidency in the 2023 general election.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated on Sunday in Abuja by VON DG, Okechukwu while\u00a0speaking on calls for Tinubu to contest the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Although the former Lagos governor is yet to officially declare his interest in contesting, he had recently said he would\u00a0not turn down the calls of his supporters asking him to run for the office of the president in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu while speaking on the development said\u00a0Tinubu played a critical role in the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, adding that the former Lagos governor could also play a \u201ckingmaker\u201d role in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The director-general said having a south-eastern presidential candidate would unite the region and the country at large.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf one is consulted by our national leader, his excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on whether he should run or not for the exalted office of the president of Nigeria in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/17\/buhari-i-look-forward-to-retiring-to-my-farm-in-2023\/\">2023<\/a>, my candid advice will be that he should use his abundant Almighty God\u2019s endowment to unite the APC and unite the south and by extension our beloved country, by backing a candidate from the south-east,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scriptures said there is time for everything which happens on earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am one of those Buharists who have tremendous respect for Asiwaju for the critical supplement he added to Buhari\u2019s 12 million vote bank, which resulted in our 2015 presidential election victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not a mean feat, when you consider that with Buhari\u2019s vote bank. We were unable to win in 2003, 2007 and 2011, until the merger of the legacy political parties, where Tinubu played a major role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu also said he is not aware of any agreement between Buhari and Tinubu on contesting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/16\/ipob-slams-southeast-governors-for-begging-for-igbo-presidency\/\">presidency<\/a> in the build-up to to 2015 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know of any agreement. However, as I said, the scriptures posit that there is time for everything which happens on this planet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I know is that there was raging debate on the proprietary of Muslim\/Muslim ticket as to whether it can guarantee victory of the APC at the 2015 presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu has stated that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu should support a south-east candidate for presidency in the 2023 general election. This was stated on Sunday in Abuja by VON DG, Okechukwu while\u00a0speaking on calls for Tinubu to contest the presidency. 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