• Challenges president to journey to Kaduna, Kano, Plateau, differents by street
•Insists Nigeria’s greatest drawback is grinding poverty, not faith
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
The Makinde-Daura Presidential Campaign Organisation (MDPCO) has declared that its presidential candidate on the platform of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, will defeat President Bola Tinubu in the 12 battleground states recognized by the president, in addition to in different states throughout the federation, in the January 2027 presidential election.
This is as Makinde declared that Nigeria’s greatest drawback is grinding poverty, not faith, urging Christians to cease shunning politics and take an energetic position in reworking the nation.
The MDPCO, in a press release by its Director of Strategic Communications, Hon. Richard Nnanna Ihediwa, asserted that Makinde would decisively defeat Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, insisting that no quantity of political manoeuvring, intimidation or abuse of incumbency by the President’s henchmen can reverse the rising tide of opposition to his re-election.
The organisation mentioned the vanity and political overreach of President Tinubu’s inside circle had deepened public resentment and additional weakened his electoral prospects.
It added that President Tinubu’s resolution to personally go to and marketing campaign in solely 12 states — Oyo, Kaduna, Rivers, Plateau, Borno, Enugu, Bauchi, Sokoto, Delta, Kano, Adamawa and Lagos — additional confirmed his apprehension over the mileage and foothold already achieved by Makinde together with his RESET NIGERIA Agenda message in the aforementioned and different states of the federation.
“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 have brought unprecedented hardship across the country,” the organisation mentioned.
“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 the last three and a half years.”
The MDPCO challenged President Tinubu to not have a change of thoughts however to go to the states to face the folks.
“We problem President Tinubu to journey across the nation by street and witness the decrepit state of federal highways, the squalor in which Nigerians reside and the extent of infrastructural decay throughout the nation, whereas his authorities squanders trillions of Naira on white elephant initiatives and wasteful programmes.
“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 a 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,” it mentioned.
The organisation mentioned the APM candidate had been participating Nigerians together with his clear-cut RESET NIGERIA message, centered on rebuilding methods and establishments that produce glorious outcomes quite than counting on sloganeering like President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
“Nigerians are gravitating in the direction of the core marketing campaign pillars and proposals in Makinde’s RESET NIGERIA Agenda, which embody the institution of an all-inclusive, four-year transitional authorities of nationwide unity with 4 precedence pillars of schooling, financial system, safety and socio-political insurance policies.
“Unlike President Tinubu’s visionless, thoughtless and rudderless rule characterised by crass arbitrariness, Makinde’s RESET NIGERIA Agenda offers data-driven strategies that revolve around tackling poverty through massive production; a security plan that prioritises 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 emphasises inclusive governance and sincere public leadership.”
The marketing campaign added: “Our marketing campaign is proud to acknowledge that suggestions from the sphere signifies that Seyi Makinde’s RESET NIGERIA Agenda is resonating with Nigerians, particularly the youths, who not solely see mild on the finish of the tunnel, however a vibrant sunny day beneath a Makinde-Daura presidency.
“President Tinubu is for the umpteenth time urged not to waste the nation’s resources on his ‘Nebuchadnezzar’ Campaign Council of failed politicians who, like the president himself, cannot attract votes from Nigerians,” the marketing campaign mentioned.
In a growth, Makinde has declared that Nigeria’s greatest drawback is grinding poverty, not faith, urging Christians to cease shunning politics and take an energetic position in reworking the nation.
He mentioned Christians couldn’t afford to face aloof from politics as a result of it was soiled or as a result of they need to not serve beneath leaders who didn’t share their religion, stressing that nationwide transformation required their energetic participation.
Makinde spoke yesterday in Abuja after receiving a Christian Icon Award on the Christian Association of Nigeria’s (CAN) fiftieth anniversary celebration.
The governor, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, mentioned Christians ought to draw classes from biblical figures who accepted troublesome assignments in pursuit of a higher goal.
“It is typical for us to say, ‘Politics is dirty. I don’t want to be yoked with unbelievers’, and things like that. But we must look at biblical examples,” he mentioned.
Makinde cited David, who, regardless of having been anointed king, served in the palace of Saul, from whom God had departed.
He mentioned the biblical account ought to problem Christians who consider they can not serve beneath leaders of various non secular persuasions.
“I will use this opportunity to encourage our Christian brothers and sisters across the country to rise and participate in the agenda to transform Nigeria and reset our country,” he mentioned.
Makinde urged Christians to concentrate on the hardship confronting Nigerians quite than permitting non secular variations to outline their engagement with nationwide affairs.
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“At this stage, we must focus on addressing the issues currently confronting us. Those are the challenges we need to tackle.”
