By Lanre Oloyede
Chieftain of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and a Commissioner representing Enugu State at the Federal Character Commission, Amb. Ginika Tor, has urged the people of the South-East not to make the mistake of casting their votes for the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the 2023 presidential election.
Tor, who spoke to journalists in Enugu at the weekend during a birthday celebration organised on her behalf by her friends and political associates, said the PDP did not deserve the votes of the South-East.
According to her, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) should Instead, sweep the polls from the zone.
She went further by expressing confidence in the candidature of Tinubu whose political records she described as unbeatable by any candidate from opposition parties.
“Our incoming President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I’m supporting him 100 percent; that is because, everywhere I have gone, statistics I have got, all you hear is that he is old. Nobody has said he has not achieved anything meaningful for the society.
“But there is something you cannot take away from Bola Ahmed Tinubu, impacting people, building people and I’m taking after him by empowering people, because God has made me a voice for the voiceless.
“When I had a close contact with Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I discovered that he may be old but what he has upstairs is not old, even at that, they say old wine tastes better.” However his wealth of experience can not be over emphasized and will do us good as a country”.
“So for me, it is time to begin to look at antecedents, pedigree; Lagos is one of the best States in the country today because there is a foundation and that foundation is Bola Ahmed Tinubu which of course you can all see that the present Governor of Lagos State Sonwo-Olu is working in line with the laid down progress and achieving success for the people of Lagos.”
Ginika also said PDP is indebted to South-East more than APC, yet their presidential ticket was given to someone from another zone, thus the need to vote against them.
“You know that before the primary elections, I was supporting the South-East presidency. I came out bold because we need to balance the imbalance. But look at it, the PDP, which is owing the South-East the ticket, took it all the way to the North. If you ask who is owing the South-East the presidential ticket, it is actually the PDP.
“We have been giving our votes to the PDP since 1999. So, they are indebted to the people of the South-East but they took that unfortunate step, what do you want the APC to do? The PDP owes the South-East first; there is a reason they took that step.
“So, I’m calling on our people not to waste their votes again on the PDP but to vote massively for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we will not regret it. The position will surely come to the South-East in the future, but for now, it is Tinubu all the way,” the Federal Commissioner added.
Ginika who was recently appointed as the National Deputy Coordinator, BAT Global Ambassador is also the secretary, APC Youth Wing National Task Force on revalidation and registration of APC youth led and youth focused support groups.
The task force was inaugurated in Abuja recently and has been mandated to coordinate the registration and revalidation exercise of all youth/student focused and youth led support groups into a recognizable structure strongly aligned with the objectives and strategic imperatives of the National Working Committee of the party.
