Sen. Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress (APC)
National Leader, says his moral authority plays a role in his ability to
influence elections.
He also said that other tools that helped him influence elections were his
skills as a veteran politician and dedication to campaigning and mobilising his
own party members.
Tinubu said this on Friday in Lagos while responding to an advertorial in the
media, alleging that he met with the INEC Chairman to influence the Sokoto
State governorship rerun election in favour of the APC.
Our attention has been drawn to a partisan advertorial in the March 21 edition
of Daily Trust, entitled – ‘Inconclusive Gubernatorial Election: Sokoto People
Warn Tinubu, Oshiomole, Yari, Bagudu and others’.
“The advertorial, placed by an organisation called the Sokoto State Coalition
of PDP Supporters, bears the logo of PDP National Youth League and is signed by
one Engr. Haruna Usman Shagari.
“The advert made baseless allegations against myself, Comrade Adams Oshiomole,
Chairman of APC, Sen. Adamu Aliero and Gov. Abdul’Aziz Yari of Zamfara.
“It falsely alleges that I, along with the others, met the INEC Chairman, Prof.
Mahmood Yakubu in order to influence the Sokoto State gubernatorial rerun
election in favour of the APC.
“These allegations by a contrived PDP organ are desperate untruths without a
basis in fact. But they are entirely in line with the delusional reactions of
PDP to their loss in the presidential elections,” he said.
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