Why I’m voting for Tinubu in 2023 — LASUSTECH VC, Olaleye

Why I’m voting for Tinubu in 2023 — LASUSTECH VC, Olaleye

The acting Vice-Chancellor of the newly created Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), Dr. Oluremi Nurudeen Olaleye has declared his support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for the 2023 elections.

Olaleye was the Rector of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Ikorodu before the institution upgraded to a varsity, LASUSTECH.

A Facebook account with the name Oluremi Nurudeen Olaleye, in a post on Saturday, had announced that he would be voting for the APC flagbearer at the next general polls.

“BREAKING NEWS FROM ME. I’M OFFICIALLY VOTING AND SUPPORTING BOLA AHMED ADEKUNLE TINUBU,” the post read.

When asked his reason for backing Tinubu by one Peter Adeiran Prince Olaitan, the LASUSTECH VC said the ex-Lagos governor is a sellable candidate and the political permutations for the 2023 elections appear to be in his favour.

He argued that the much talked-about restructuring of Nigeria is much possible if a Yoruba man (Tinubu) becomes President, unlike someone from the South-East, urging Igbo elites to support his candidacy.

See the full post below:

“First, let me start by congratulating Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his doggedness, tenacity, never-say-die attitude. It is a victory richly deserved, so I send my warmest felicitations to him on the victory.

“Having said that, he should look at his chances in the main election. It is obvious that APC is the party to beat. You know why? We have a very good candidate in Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. You can love or hate him but one thing you can’t take away from him is that he is a leader and he’s gifted with the characteristics, the major traits required for good leadership. God has endowed you with those characteristics and what are those characteristics? Determination, self confidence, good judgment and foresight. I have no doubt in my mind that he will emerge victorious.

“Again, if you look at the political permutations, they are also in his favour apart from the fact that he is a very good, sellable and marketable candidate.

“Many Nigerians are still rooting for a President from the South-East but it appears you are okay with Tinubu To be honest with you, I would have loved a person from South East to emerge as APC Presidential candidate. I was not a delegate. I can’t really say what happened. I am as surprised as you are but I wouldn’t want us to really dwell on that now. I want us to focus on the fact that we have a candidate. As South-Easterners, how do we key in, because I can tell you that Asiwaju Tinubu is a President in waiting.

“But a Yoruba man will be able to generate the needed and necessary cooperation of other tribes to restructure Nigeria and if he does, there will be no suspicion of plotting to balkanize and breakaway from the country.

“So I expect the Igbos, our elites to sit down with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and have an understanding that we will follow, so that by the grace of God when he becomes President in 2023, Nigeria will be restructured into a true federation, where one’s ability can determine how far he or she can go in life.

“I believe the Labour Party has a great future under Mr. Peter Obi, but what cannot say is whether that great future is 2023 or 2027. You need time to prepare for the Presidency and Tinubu has been on this for a long time. He didn’t happen overnight.”

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