Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday challenged candidates of the party in the forthcoming general elections not to disappoint those who elected them to fly the party’s tickets at the polls.
Tinubu who spoke in Abuja said APC as a party was formed with the sole aim to rescue the people from misrule, adding that the party cannot afford to fail at this crucial time.
Addressing the party governorship and National Assembly candidates ahead of the general elections, Tinubu said after many unproductive years of the former People’s Democratic Party’s government, Nigerians and indeed members of the APC are expecting a new lease of life from the candidates.
According to him, everyone must collectively work for the party’s victory in all elections to ensure that the party’s project of growth and development for the nation is assured.
On his part, he promised to continue to work for every one of them even as he also desires to become Nigeria’s president.
“But winning takes us working as a united force. We have to act like the broom, the symbol of our party. A stick cannot clean any dirt but come together under the band as one, we can sweep aside all the bad and wrong things that impede our nation’s growth and development.
“As individuals, we must strive to win our respective elections. But that is not enough. We have to work together to deliver everyone contesting in our party.
“The presidential election, for example, is not solely about Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It is your project as well. Your election is equally my project.
“We need each other. Whatever position you are contesting, you need me as much as I need you. If I work for you, I am helping myself; if you mobilize for me, you are working for yourself at the same time. Our individual and collective fates are one.
“Let us win and rise together. This is as it should be.
