The Media Director for the All Progressives Congress APC, Presidential Council for Canada, Dr Abiola Oshodi, has stressed the for Nigerians to vote wisely for the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the 2023 elections.
Oshodi, in a statement made available to reporters, said Nigeria needs a competent and visionary person as a President to take it to a new level.
He added, “Whosoever wins the presidential election in 2023 will be confronted with monumental challenges and opportunities within and outside the country that will test the mettle of such a president.
“Nigeria is at a delicate stage of its developmental process and needs a President with a hand on experience and Senator Tinubu who has governed Lagos, the most commercial of Nigeria 36 States deserves to be given an opportunity to pilot Nigeria affairs from May 29, 2023,”
Dr Oshodi, a Canadian based Psychiatrist and the convener of the Oshodi for Tinubu /Shettima media Group pointed out that Tinubu laid the foundation for the current Lagos that today accounts for the chunk of capital importation into Nigeria.
He described Tinubu as a man with innovative thinking who touched every facet of Lagos as a governor from 1999- 20 04, an attribute needed by Nigeria at this stage of its development for the desired transformation.
The Owo- born politicians stressed, “Tinubu created the Ministry of Environment to tackle the issue of flooding head on, introduced the one-day governor programme that brought young boys and girls into the limelight and reformed the health sector accompanied with the distribution of free eye glasses.
“He created a Housing Ministry to redress the acute shortage of housing in Lagos, with a mandate to construct affordable houses and introduced the Independent Power Project, and the Bus Rapid Transportation – BRT, with Lagos State Transport Management Authority. LASTMA to develop a culture of regulation, control management of traffic operations and to ensure hitch free traffic on Lagos roads.
” Tinubu also created 37 more local councils in order to bring government more to the people and brought the Lekki corridor into limelight, the Lekki corridor that that had become a beehive of economic activities with the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals, the 650,000 barrels per day integrated refinery.”