The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) Presidential Campaign Organization has said that its candidate, Seyi Makinde, will defeat President Bola Tinubu in the 12 states “identified by the President” as battle ground states, as well as other states across the country.
The APM, in a statement by the Director of Strategic Communication, Makinde-Daura Presidential Campaign Organisation (MDPCO), Richard Ihediwa, said no amount of political manoeuvring, intimidation or allegedly abuse of incumbency by the President’s henchmen can reverse the tide of opposition to his re-election.
The All Progressives Congress ( APC) Presidential Campaign Council ( PCC) had identified 12 states, where the President Tinubu would personally participate in campaign for the 2027 presidential poll.The states include Kaduna, Rivers, Plateau, Oyo, Borno, Enugu, Bauchi, Sokoto, Delta, Kano, Adamawa and Lagos.
Nonetheless, the MDPCO that the President’s decision to personally campaign only in the 12 states further confirms his alleged apprehension over the mileage and foothold already gained by Makinde with his Reset Nigeria agenda across the country.
“Mr. President should know that his visit to these states, if he eventually does, will not in any way change the direction or the determination of the people to vote him out, given his unpardonable failures in office which has brought unprecedented hardship across the country.
“President Tinubu has no meaningful achievement he can boast of in these and other states of the federation where Nigerians now refer to his government as ‘T Pain ‘ following the suffering they have been subjected to by the policies of the Tinubu administration in last three and half years,” it stated.
The Campaign challenged President Tinubu to travel around the country by road and witness the decrepit state of federal highways, the squalor in which Nigerians live and the level of infrastructural decay across the country.
The MDPCO added that ‘if President Tinubu believes he is popular as he claims, he should not stop at the rally ground or at the airport when he gets to any of the states. He should go beyond waving to the gathering of APC rented crowd and be bold enough to directly engage the people in the communities and towns to seek their votes as the APM candidate, Makinde has been doing since he started his campaign.
‘The APM candidate has been engaging Nigerians with his clear-cut Reset Nigeria Agenda message, focused on rebuilding systems and institutions that produce excellent outcomes rather than relying on vain sloganeering like President Tinubu’s vacuous Renewed Hope Agenda
“Nigerians are gravitating towards the core campaign pillars and proposals in Makinde’s Reset Nigeria Agenda which include the establishment of an all-inclusive, four-year transitional government of national unity with four priority pillars of education, economy, security and socio-political policies.
” Unlike President Tinubu’s visionless, thoughtless and rudderless rule characterized by crass arbitrariness, Engr. Makinde Reset Nigeria Agenda offers data-driven strategies that revolve around tackling poverty through massive production; a security plan that prioritizes intelligence gathering, social reorientation, and decisive kinetic and non-kinetic actions; an education plan that focuses on expanding access to quality functional education and institutional reform that emphasizes on inclusive governance, and sincere public leadership.”
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