{"id":192715,"date":"2022-06-02T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T06:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=192715"},"modified":"2022-06-02T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T06:12:13","slug":"presidential-primary-endorse-me-when-you-get-to-abuja-tinubu-tells-ayade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/02\/presidential-primary-endorse-me-when-you-get-to-abuja-tinubu-tells-ayade\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential primary: Endorse me when you get to Abuja, Tinubu tells Ayade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu who is seeking to clinch the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has requested Ben Ayade, Cross River governor, to support his presidential bid.<\/p>\n<p>Ayade, who is also a presidential hopeful, met with Tinubu when the latter visited Cross River on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, the former Lagos governor promised to improve the economy of Cross River if he is elected president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMine is to respect you as you respect me. I appeal to you as your senior brother and the first to declare his intention, not to endorse me today, but when you get to Abuja, you can endorse me fully,\u201d Tinubu said, according to a statement by his media office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must have that unity of purpose. We must work together not only for the unity and economic development of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/31\/electoral-commission-boss-well-curtail-vote-buying-in-cross-river\/\">Cross River<\/a>, but also of the country. We owe that to the present and future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Ayade said it is the turn of the south to produce the president, adding that the idea of zoning is to ensure equity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZoning is a provision of our constitution to ensure balancing. It should not be about ethnic or regional domination, but balancing. It\u2019s the turn of southern Nigeria in 2023,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The former Lagos governor was accompanied on the visit by Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano; Tanko Al-Makura, former governor of Nasarawa; Kashim Shettima, former Borno governor, among others.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192721 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.40-PM-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.40-PM-1.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.40-PM-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.40-PM-1-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.40-PM-1-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192722 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.39-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.39-PM.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.39-PM-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.39-PM-1024x702.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.39-PM-768x526.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192723 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.40-PM-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.40-PM-2.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.40-PM-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.40-PM-2-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/06\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-01-at-9.42.40-PM-2-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu who is seeking to clinch the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has requested Ben Ayade, Cross River governor, to support his presidential bid. 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