Monarchs in Lagos State have endorsed Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for president.
Lasisi Gbadamosi; Onigando of Igando, who is the head of Ikeja division of Obas, endorsed Tinubu while playing host to the South-West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA’23).
He described Tinubu as the most acceptable and qualified Nigerian Presidential candidate come 2023.
Gbadamosi said the 65 traditional rulers in ikeja division had endorsed Tinubu, saying that God would give him the grace to attain the position.
The Onigando of Igando said Tinubu would emerge as President and prayed for the team and assured them of total support.
Earlier, Adedayo Adeyeye, national chairman of SWAGA, said the zoning arrangement of presidential ticket in Nigeria should be in favor the southern region to give every part of the country a sense of belonging.
The former minister of works said that if the presidential ticket comes to the south, it would bring unity among the Southern and the northern region of the country.
Adeyeye, a former National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) spokesman, said anybody could come out for Presidency from the south as the zone is not constituted by South-West alone.
“The group believes that the principle of rotation between the North and the South should be sustained in order to give every part of the country a sense of belonging,” he said.
“We must forget our division in terms of ethnicity and come together. There are three geopolitical zones in the south and each of them is qualified to produce the president.
However, we are saying that there is someone in the south whose personality is highly acceptable in all parts of the country. We are putting our best foot forward to maximize our advantage.”
He noted that the motive of the group was predicated on people having the person that they could get justice from and the system would be fair to them.
The senator noted that they had been able to prove to the “doubting Thomases” that Tinubu is acceptable by the generality of the people in the country.
“We have heard what the traditional rulers have said in all the six states in the zone. Now we want to move to the other geopolitical zones.
The work we are doing now is already encouraging similar movement in all the geopolitical zones in the country”, he said.
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