Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for president, stated that the 2023 presidential campaigns should be founded on facts rather than lies.
Joe Igbokwe, a leader in the APC and ardent supporter of Tinubu, cited the former governor of Lagos State as having said this in a message on his Facebook page.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Tinubu made the remark while claiming that those Nigerian youths are being purposefully deceived by people who had never seen a million dollars before entering politics or becoming bank executives and beginning to plunder the country’s coffers.
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The presidential candidate warned against further deception of the youth on his source of wealth, claiming that any Nigerian who had the foresight to invest as little as N1.8 million in Apple Corporation shares back in 1980 would now be worth more than N10 trillion.
He said “Please stop deliberately misleading our Youths. Any Nigerian who was smart enough to invest a mere N1.8m in Apple Corporation shares in 1980, will be worth more than N10 Trillion today.
“Our Youths are deliberately being misled by those who never saw a million dollars until they got into public office or became banking executives and started stealing.
“A $1,000 daily basic travel allowance of a good business executive in 1990, invested into Apple Corporation shares, is today worth at least $2.5 million dollars.
“Some of us still alive today, received per diem of $1000 per day, locally and abroad in the private sector in the 1990s. I bought my first computer and professional IT Tools, outrightly with such per diem in 1986.
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“Call a thief a thief. Let rogues call themselves rogues, without using the collective “we are all rogues”. Those who imported Tokunbo cars for $5,000 or new cars with $10,000 in 1990 to show off, instead of investing in Apple shares for example, should not assume all today’s wave-making multi-billionaires in politics and business, are rogues like them,” Igbokwe quoted Tinubu as saying.
According to him, Tinubu was a millionaire in dollars as a NADECO chief at least 10 years before he became the governor of Lagos State.
“Let others openly declare the sources of their billions,” he said.
Tinubu added: “The reality today is still that creative and very intelligent youth will still earn allowances in dollars without needing to lie as internet trolls. As liars, they will only lose credibility and respect, as they grow older. Let the 2023 Presidential campaigns be on issues based and not lies from candidates.”
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