From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
National Youth Mobilisation North Central of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), has promised to ensure that the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, sweeps 70 per cent of votes cast in the geopolitical zone.
They argued that Tinubu’s capacity, experience, not his age, or health status placed him above the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP), Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively.
Director of North Central Youth Mobilisation, Mike Msuaan, who dropped the hint at a press conference after meeting with scores of party stalwarts i in Abuja on Thursday, argued that Tinubu’s antecedents as Governor of Lagos State to buttress his assertions.
He said: “We didn’t see Asiwaju contesting with Atiku and Peter Obi. We know what Atiku did to this country. He threw the youths of North Central and this country to the street.
“The privatisation exercise that he mishandled that drove the youths of this country to be jobless. Uptil now, we are still in darkness. Is that the person that should rule us? Or are we talking of Peter Obi who has zero record in Anambra State?
“We are equal to the task. We have somebody who is competent whose antecedents have been speaking for him and would speak for him. This is somebody other states still copy his economic plan in Lagos. The two of them are nowhere comparable to Tinubu. Under Tinubu there would be total liberation for the youths and wealth creation,” he said.
Speaking further, Msuaan noted: “the President of the United States of America (USA) is as old as Tinubu. It is not about age, it’s about what you have upstairs. Tinubu has experience better than all of them. The right thing the president would do is to assemble the best hands for the country. He has been tested and trusted. He did it in Lagos and he is going to do it for Nigeria.”
On whether APC is comfortable with the use of BVAS and electronic transmission of election results, he responded: “Why should the APC be afraid of BVAS and electronic transfer of results when the youths are strongly behind us. Why should we be afraid? I told you that if election is conducted tomorrow APC is going to win.
“They are the ones running after us. We have already given them more than 30 per cent gap ahead. And by tomorrow if elections are conducted we would give them more than 50 per cent. We are very comfortable with the arrangement made by INEC.
“We are going to win with that because that has taken care of the manipulation of those who want to do yahoo yahoo on election day. Asiwaju is the next president of this country by the grace of God,” he stated emphatically.