'We have visited over 300 Obas (traditional rulers) and they have prayed and blessed Asiwaju. People and other groups in the south-west have keyed into this agenda. And I can tell you that if Buhari said he had 12 million votes, we already have 14 million in our pocket.'
, has said it would secure not less than 14 million votes for the aspirant at the 2023 presidential election.
SWAGA, he said, was formed to consolidate Mr Tinubu’s agenda and that of the people of the South-west. He also said it cuts across party lines.Mr Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress , is one if the leading presidential aspirants of the party. The goal to garner 14 million votes for Mr Tinubu comes on the heels of high voter apathy being recorded in previous elections with a higher percentage recorded in the South-west.
“We have visited over 300 Obas and they have prayed and blessed Asiwaju. People and other groups in the South-west have keyed into this agenda. And I can tell you that if Buhari said he had 12 million votes, we already have 14 million in our pocket,” he said.He added that Mr Tinubu is popular and influential among the masses in the south-west and other major northern states like Kano and Katsina.
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