Allow me do Nigeria a favour, says Tinubu

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress and presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said electorates should do him the favour of voting him into power so he could reciprocate same to Nigeria.

Tinubu made the plea during a one-day forum organised by the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, for serving Speakers, former Speakers and deputies.

Speaking on his pedigree at the event themed ‘The legislature, changing times and Nigeria’s democratic journey’, Tinubu said, “We have the brilliance, the resources and the focus. We do not just know how to run the race and take care of the gear of progress. Just as I need Nigeria, Nigeria needs me. Nigeria needs drastic courageous changes that will bring revenue and I am that courageous one it needs. I was raised to be courageous and this has been working for me. I want to bring same to bear as president of Nigeria.

“In the face of tyranny, I have survived, struggled for democracy; I have endured the bush path, lived without a family, spent resources. To make Nigeria one is a task and who could do it? I am one. I am the first governor to grant autonomy to the House of Assembly. I survived non-allocation of local government funds. We didn’t suffer; we didn’t retrench. We made progress out of adversity.

“I inherited N600m as Internally Generated Revenue with zero allocation from Federation Accounts Allocation Committee. But we survived and today, Lagos is number one economy. That is why I am begging you to do me a favour so that I can do Nigeria a favour.”

The former Lagos State Governor said it is high time Nigeria got a leader with a clear vision, courage, thinker and doer like him.

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