August 12, (THEWILL) – A support group for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s presidential aspiration come 2023, Tinubu Support Organisation, TSO, has said that it will do everything within its power to ensure that he would enter the race and win the election as the next Nigerian President.
Making this known while delivering his welcome address at the inauguration of the Directorates and Directors of TSO in Lagos Thursday, its Lagos State Coordinator, Otunba Akin C. Ibesanmi, appreciated everyone who has made one contribution or the other to the growth of TSO in Lagos State.
Specifically, he appreciated the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Kadiri Hamzat, and the Chief of Staff to the Lagos State Governor, Tayo Akinmade Ayinde, for their immeasurable past support, even as he, like Oliver Twist, requested “for more support to navigate the ship of Lagos TSO to the shore of success, morally, physically and financially.”
He disclosed that the directorates being inaugurated are the various departments of the organisation, “saddled with the responsibilities of driving the activities of the group in Lagos State.”
Describing the TSO as both pressure and support group, Ibesanmi said, “Former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as you are all aware, has yet to throw his hat into the ring for the Nigerian Presidency, but as a pressure group, TSO is hereby pressuring the Jagaban of Borgu to start thinking in that direction, if he has not given it a thought, and come out openly to make his intention known, because we in the TSO believe that the Asiwaju of Lagos is eminently qualified to steer the shop of governance of our dear country and take her to prosperity.”
He insisted that putting sentiments apart, Tinubu has paid his dues, adding that, “His competence and acumen are never in doubt, as he has proved over and over that he has the Midas touch to take Nigeria to greater heights.”
Highlights of the programme were the administration of the oath of office on the directors of the various directorates and their deputies, as well as the decoration of invited guests with the TSO pin.
In his keynote address, the TSO DG, Aminu Suleiman, said that he had come a long way with Asiwaju Tinubu.
He recalled the assistance Tinubu rendered to President Muhammadu Buhari on his way to the Presidency.
He disclosed that the North is solidly behind the “Tinubu for President” project.
The event had in attendance, the Director-General of the TSO, Hon. Aminu Suleiman; Special Adviser to Governor Sanwo-Olu on Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Bayo Osiyemi, who represented the Chief of Staff to the Lagos State governor; Chairman of the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board, Hon. Wahab Alawiye-King; Special Adviser on Islamic Affairs to Sanwo-Olu, Hon. Abdullahi Jebe, Lagos State Commissioner for Waterfront and Infrastructure, Arch Kabiru Ahmed Abdullahi; elder brother to Governor Sanwo-Olu, Bayo Sanwo-Olu among other dignitaries.
Traditional rulers in attendance included the Eze Ndigbo of Lagos State, Chief Christian Nwachukwu.
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