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TINUBU TO VOTERS: Retire Atiku in 2023
… as rally for ‘home boy’ shuts down Lagos
By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor
RESIDENTIAL Candidate of the ruling
PAll Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed, yesterday, promised to run an
inclusive progressive government, if elected.
Tinubu, who taunted the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, Presidential Candidate, as a serial
Aso Rock contender since 1999, asked voters
to retire the former Vice President in 2023
with their votes because he has nothing to offer
the citizenry.
The former two-time Lagos State governor
spoke at a colourful mega rally organised by
the campaign team of APC in Lagos led by
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the Teslim
Balogun Stadium, Surulere Lagos.
Massive crowd welcomes home boy to
Lagos
It was a home coming of sorts for the Lagos
City boy, who was received by a jubilant crowd
of supporters and APC faithful drawn from all
parts of Lagos and South-West states. They
came in various vehicles that locked down most
parts of Surulere.
As early as 9am all the parking lots at the
National Stadium complex, opposite the venue,
had been filled with rally participants taking
over the service lane of the highway.
It was a show of love for Tinubu, who governed
Lagos for eight years and has been instrumental
to the emergence of successor governors
ever since.
Tinubu, who spoke in both English and Yoruba
commended Governor Sanwo-Olu for the
organisation of the rally, saying “I don’t see
anything missing here today.” He also commended
President Muhammadu Buhari, the
APC leadership and governors among others
saying together APC would retain power
He said: “It is a broom (APC symbol) revolution.
We will continue a progressive government
for the country where nobody will be
excluded. We will do our best. You will not be
abandoned. You will not be forgotten in education,
you will not be forgotten in healthcare.
“I know one man who has been running for
the presidency since 1999, Atiku. He ran in
AC, ran in PDP and is running in PDP again.
With your votes tell him to go and sit at home.
Retire him with your votes.
“He said he will ensure a better future for
Nigerians. Don’t ’listen to him. With PDP, they
were in power for 16 years. They gave you
estimated bills, they forgot Lagos-Badagry
Syinix launches Swallow Maker,
says it saves time, energy
SYINIX Electronics, the global smart
home appliance brand has announced
the launch of its first entry point appliance,
Syinix Swallow Maker, to help in the
preparation of swallow foods and solve the
difficulties of making swallow foods such as
fufu, amala, pounded yam, semovita,
semolina, and wheat, amongst other meals
for Nigerians.
The innovative Swallow Maker is designed
to replace the usually tedious and timeconsuming
old ways of preparing swallow
foods with a fully automated machine that
requires minimal human effort.
Fulfilling its promise of a comfortable” and
“relieved” life experience, Syinix developed
the swallow maker for families to truly live a
quality life and prepare their swallow foods
with the speed of time and still enjoy their meals.
Speaking about the product launch, Justin
Liu, Chief Operating Officer, Syinix Nigeria,
noted that the Swallow Maker is the first allpurpose
automated swallow food maker in
the world.
“The Syinix Swallow Maker is here to save
your time and energy; the machine encourages
creative cooking and users can try a
combination of ingredients and recipes with
no health implications to consumers,” he stated
“Syinix is a high-end home appliance brand
with spread to more than 20 countries in Africa
and its features of high quality and innovation
are becoming increasingly competitive and
promising in the African market in recent
years.
“Our brand’s vision is to provide African
families with reliable products that seek to
improve their value of life. It’s in the bid for
continuous improvement that the Syinix
Swallow Maker was birthed to keep improving
the customers’ lifestyles and putting smiles on
their faces through the creation of innovative
road, forgot Second Niger Bridge, forgot and
other roads. Don’t mind them.
“We have all 22 APC governors here. We shall
win together. We will not lose any one of them.
Go get your PVCs and vote for APC candidates.
You have seen what Sanwo-Olu and
Obafemi Hamzat are doing in Lagos? For me,
for you, and the stability of Lagos State, vote
for Sanwo-Olu.”
With Tinubu at the rally are his running mate,
Senator Kashim Shettima; members of the
APC National Working Committee, NWC, led
the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi
Adamu, members of the Presidential Campaign
Council, PCC, and governors elected on
the platform of the APC.
The governors include Dapo Abiodun,
Ogun; Yahaya Bello , Kogi; Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq,
Kwara; Gboyega Oyetola, Osun;
Simon Lalong, Plateau; Aminu Masari, Katsina,
and Atiku Bagudu, Kebbi among others
Also at the rally were House of Representatives
Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila; Works and
Housing Minister, Babatunde Raji Fashola;
Minister for Information and Culture Lai Mohammad,
former Ogun State Governor, Gbenga
Daniel; former deputy Governor, Lagos State
and Lagos West Senatorial candidate, Idiat
Adebule; and former Speaker Lagos State
home appliances with superior quality
products”.
Syinix Swallow Maker is an all-purpose
latest development by Syinix for Nigerians to
ease the stress of making swallow foods. It
offers speedy preparation and reduces the time
spent in the kitchen with a smarter and cleaner
experience—alongside useful features which
include an automatic intricate food processor
By Lawani Mikairu
COCA-COLA Nigeria is giving succour
to the over 5,000 households displaced
by floods in Anambra and Delta States, with
a relief package valued at $175,000
The Director of Public Affairs, Communications,
and Sustainability, Coca-Cola, Nigeria,
Nwamaka Onyemelukwe, who disclosed
this in a statement, expressed sadness
at the unfortunate development and explained
that Coca-Cola Foundation would
work with not-for-profit organisations in the
bid to ameliorate the sufferings of the people
affected.
Onyemelukwe said, “We are dedicating the
sum of $175,000 dollars as part of efforts to
reduce the traumatic situation confronting
victims of flood in Anambra and Delta States.
Our identified areas of intervention include
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
“Presently, over 1.3 million people need
assistance, across Nigeria, as a result of
floods which has impacted up to 24 states.
As the waters are slowly receding, the priority
will be to help people recover and to regain
their livelihoods. Some of the identi-
House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji.
Tinubu’s president-in-waiting, say Lalong,
Bagudu, Adamu, others
Earlier, in his welcome remarks, Sanwo-Olu
said by the grace of God Tinunu is the next
president and commended him pushing an
idea that gave birth to “a stable Lagos today.”
“Tinubu has been doing outstanding things
professionally and politically. He is the best
man for the job. He is a fountain of knowledge.
We want to translate the tenacity of Lagos
at the centre. This is the beginning of mother
of all rallies.”
Also speaking, Plateau State Governor and
Director General of APC PCC, Mr. Simon Lalong,
celebrated Tinubu, saying with his experience,
capacity, reach and what he did in Lagos
as governor “the 2023 presidential election
is as good as won” for the APC because
“victory is sure.”
According to him, Tinubu stands taller than
all the other presidential candidates” and “he
is a manager of men and resources and the
best man to succeed President Buhari.
He said other Nigerians have accepted Tinubu
and urged Lagosians not to reject their own
but give him more support than they gave him
in 2015 and 2019.
•From left: Chairman, ICAN Enugu State, Mrs. Ifeoma Catherine Otiji, Dr. Peter
Ndubuishi Mbah, Enugu PDP governorship candidate, and his running mate, Barr.
Ifeanyi Ossai, during the body's End of the Year Retreat held weekend at Nike Lake
Resort, Enugu.
that saves time and energy.
The all-purpose Swallow Maker supports
the making of varieties of most of Nigeria’s
common solid foods such as eba, amala,
pounded yam, semovita/semolina, wheat, fufu,
etc. Beyond that, you can also be creative with
other dishes of your choice using this machine
and still have more time and energy to do other
things while waiting for the meal.
FLOODS: Coca-Cola doles out $175,000
relief package for Anambra, Delta
fied immediate humanitarian needs include
food, clean water, hygiene support, and livelihood
support, amongst others.
“For effectiveness, we are working with the
Whitefield Foundation, over a three-month
period starting from November 21, 2022.
With a special focus on the vulnerable – the
elderly, women people living with disabilities
and children, at least 30,000 individuals
who make up 5,000 households would receive
nutritious food packages.
“The intervention would also include counselling
to guard against the survivors becoming
victims under similar circumstances
in future, and healthcare because concerns
are mounting of a possible outbreak of
waterborne diseases,” she added.
Speaking also, Chief Executive Officer, of
Whitefield Foundation, Funmi Johnson, explained,
“To address the critical needs of
flood survivors, we came up with a specialpurpose
program, code-named ‘Operation
LADDER’, which means, ‘Laugh At Deluge,
Drink, Eat and Rejuvenate’. With this, we intend
to empower flood survivors to be filled
with hope to rise and climb out of the despair”.
He also urged Nigerians to reject candidates
who give fake statistics and make fake promises.
In like manner, the Chairman of Progressive
Governors Forum, PGF, and Kebbi State
Governor, Atiku Bagudu, said the 22 governors
of the APC were in Lagos to campaign for
Tinubu for the right reasons because Tinubu
left a better Lagos with more opportunities for
many, adding that if elected, Tinubu would
replicate the feat at the centre.
On his part, Gbajabiamila described Tinubu
as “the greatest Nigerian in modern day
Nigeria politics” noting that none of the other
17 presidential candidates has developed men
and women like Tinubu.
However, the National Chairman, Abdullahi
Adamu, urged caution saying “it is not over
until it is over” and urged APC faithful to work
hard and deliver Tinubu and APC candidates
at the polls.
Delta PDP Ward Chairmen
decry neglect, issue 2-week
ultimatum to Okowa, Esiso
By Chancel Sunday
WARD Chairmen of the Peoples Demo
cratic Party, PDP, under the umbrella of
PDP Ward Chairmen’s Forum, PWCF, Delta
State have issued a two-week ultimatum to
Gov Ifeanyi Okowa and the state party chairman,
Kingsley Esiso, to as a matter of necessity,
consider them as members of the party.
This was contained in a communique issued
at the end of an enlarged meeting of members
at Kwale, Ndokwa-West local government
area of the state, yesterday, stressing that they
were fed up with the neglect in the scheme of
things in the state.
The communique, signed by the Chairman
of PWCF, Mr Tanko Awipi (Bomadi), Vice
Chairman, Hon. Agbanashi Chinedu Basil
(Oshimili North) and Assistant Secretary, Mr
Oba Matthew (Isoko South), reads in part:
“We and our ward executive members commend
Gov Okowa, who’s the Vice Presidential
candidate of our party, for his giant strides in
the state.
“It’s a fact that we and our excos perform all
grassroot activities on behalf of the party but
have been neglected in the scheme of things in
the state. We’ll not leave the party but cannot
remain as underdogs.
“We also frowned at the situation whereby
we met with the Senior Political Adviser to
Gov Okowa over our plight without tangible
outcome, as well as the state party chairman
neither recognizing nor thinking about our
plight as grassroot mobilizers.”
Family, associates hold
memorial lecture in honour
of ‘Oloye’ Saraki
THE family and associates of Second Re
public Senate Leader, Dr. (Oloye)
Abubakar Olusola Saraki, will tomorrow hold
a public memorial lecture in honour of the
late medical doctor and politician who died
on November 14, 2012, at the age of 79.
The lecture, titled ‘The Leadership and Followership
Debate’ will be delivered by the
Kenyan anti-corruption crusader and public
intellectual, Prof. Patrick Lumumba, at the Chida
Events Centre, Utako, Abuja. It was earlier
scheduled for International Conference Centre
(ICC), Central Business District, Abuja, before
the shift of venue. The public lecture headlines
the series of activities marking the tenth
anniversary of the transition of the man widely
known as ‘Oloye’ among his numerous supporters
across the country.
Other events earlier held in his hometown,
Ilorin, Kwara State, as part of the memorial
celebration included a medical outreach for
the less privileged and a prayer session witnessed
by a mammoth crowd inside the premises
of the Ilorin Central Mosque.
UYLA flays exclusion of
Urhobo from NDDC Board
By Ochuko Akuopha
URHOBO Youth Leaders Association,
UYLA, has lamented the exclusion of
Urhobo from the list of Board members of the
Niger Delta Development Commission,
NDDC, submitted to the National Assembly
by President Muhammadu Buhari.
UYLA, in a statement by its Acting President,
Olorogun Samuel Oghotomo, and Secretary,
Olorogun Ogheneovo Atiti, described the exclusion
as daylight robbery and slap on the
Urhobo people “as the largest oil and gas producing
ethnic group in the Niger Delta.”
The group rejected the list and reiterated its
resolve to “fight the injustice of the APC’s Federal
Government on the Urhobo mation”.
It called on the Deputy Senate President, Senator
Ovie Omo-Agege, and Minister of State
for Labour and Employment, Olorogun Festus
Keyamo, to immediately intervene and prevail
on Buhari to include an Urhobo as a member
of the NDDC Board.