In order to attend the final rally of the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign, Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retired), has arrived in Lagos State, the nation’s commercial centre.
At 2:35 pm, Buhari’s Leonardo AW139 helicopter arrived at the National Stadium after flying him from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. He was then taken to the 25,000-seat Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, where the rally will take place.
Buhari is in Lagos to lend his support to Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, the vice presidential candidates for the APC.
Former governor of Lagos from 1999 to 2007, Tinubu won the most votes out of 23 candidates in the Party’s primary elections in June 2022, making him the APC’s presidential candidate.
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A month later, he revealed his running mate, Kashim Shettima, a former Governor of Borno State, northeast Nigeria.
The Lagos rally becomes Buhari’s 10th appearance since the APC campaign flagged off in Plateau State on November 15, 2022.
So far, he has visited Sokoto, Katsina, Imo, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Bauchi, Yobe, Gombe, Plateau and Lagos states.
Tuesday’s rally comes one day to the deadline approved by the Independent National Electoral Commission for all candidates to conclude their campaigns.
It also comes four days to the Presidential and National Assembly elections holding on Saturday, February 25, 2023.
18 presidential candidates will appear on the ballot for Saturday’s election.
However, the majority of Nigerians recognise only four of those candidates.
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They include the APC’s Bola Tinubu, the Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar, the Labour Party’s Peter Obi and a former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, who is contesting on the New Nigeria Peoples Party ticket.
In the past 96 days of campaign, all four candidates have expressed their belief to clinch the Presidency and lead Africa’s most populous state.
Mindful of the issues that have dominated the Nigerian psyche, Tinubu, Atiku, Obi and Kwankwaso have all promised to revive the struggling economy, fight widespread insecurity and uproot endemic corruption.
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