Ekiti: Tinubu / Shettima Grassroots Independent Campaign Council Formally Inaugurated ……. Just As Opeyemi Bamidele, Jide Awe, Olayisade, Others Optimistic Of Victory For Asiwaju At The February Poll

By Gabriel Olawale

The Tinubu / Shettima Grassroots Independent Campaign Council, GICC, has been formally inaugurated in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State Capital with a charge to the over 400 of it’s members to work very closely with Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji as the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State to be able to achieve an outstanding victory at the February 25th, 2023 presidential election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Ekiti State. 

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Some of the key leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State, who were present at the inauguration of the GICC in Ekiti State includes the Senator representing the Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, who is also re-contesting; Prince Akintade Olayisade, the Ekiti State Coordinator for the GICC;  Chief Olajide Awe, the Special Adviser, Political Affairs to Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji of Ekiti State as well as Honourable Akinola Awodeyi Akinsehinwa, the National Coordinator of the Tinubu / Shettima Grassroots Independent Campaign Council, GICC, in the Southern region of the Country among others expressed the optimistic of victory for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the February, 2023 poll. 

Addressing the members of the GICC at the Campaign Office of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State on Sunday, Honourable Akinola Awodeyi Akinsehinwa, the Deputy National Coordinator of the Tinubu / Shettima Grassroots Independent Campaign Council, GICC, stated that the GICC and PCC were the major campaign organizations working for the realization of the presidential ambition of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the 25th of February, 2023. 

Awodeyi while speaking further at the Ado Ekiti event on Sunday said that the purpose of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Grassroot Independent Campaign Council is to be elected as the President and Commander in Chief of the Country come February 25th, 2023 and by May, 2023, to be sworn-in as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces in the Country. 

Also, the Ekiti State Coordinator of the GICC, Prince Akintade Olayisade in his speech at the inauguration ceremony assured Nigerians that a new dawn will break forth in Nigeria and the sleeping giant will rise up to take it’s rightful place in the comity of great nations in the world when the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would have been elected as the next President for the Country on February 25th, 2023. 

Prince Olayisade went on to describe Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu as a man of a great impart due to his track records of changing the story of Lagos from a disorganized State and crowded place into a well organized and cosmopolitan State and as the economy hub of the Country.

Equally, Olayisade took his time to  explain that the GICC is the personal initiative of the presidential candidate of APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu with the aim to embark on a door to door, house to house, street to street campaigns ahead of the February 25th, 2023 presidential election. 

Olayisade however used the opportunity of the GICC inauguration in Ekiti State to call on the residents of the state to come out in their large numbers to vote for Tinubu / Shettima joint ticket as well as Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, the Ekiti State Central Senatorial District Candidate and other candidates of the party in the State during the forthcoming polls.

Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, the Ekiti Central Senatorial District Candidate in the 2023 general elections, while fielding questions from journalists after the Ekiti GICC inauguration, emphasized, that, “there are two major organs for the Campaigns, one, is the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, at the national and state levels, which is in charge of organizing the rallies, and coordinating the campaigns. The other organ, according to him, is what is known as

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the Tinubu / Shettima Grassroots Independent Campaign Council, which is saddled with the responsibilities of ensuring door to door campaigns for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be victorious at the poll”.

Senator Bamidele however enjoined the Ekiti people to take advantage of the GICC platform to take the message of Asiwaju Presidency to every nooks and crannies of the State. 

According to Senator Bamidele, he said, “going by what is happening on the streets of Nigeria, and going by the nature of the popular side, and the scientific campaigns that the Asiwaju Campaign Organizations are running, and his antecedents, among all the other frontline candidates, and then, situating Asiwaju within all of these, it is obvious to me, that Asiwaju in this campaign, and the February 25th election, he is the Presidential Candidate to beat”.

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“He said, he is very hopeful and convinced, that, Asiwaju is the kind of solution that Nigeria needs at this time among all those who are contesting. He is not promising to do anything that he has not done before. He was Governor of Lagos State for 8 years. And by the Grace of God, I was an integral part of his administration. I served in his cabinet, first time as special adviser, I served in his cabinet as honourable commissioner. And after that, I also served in the cabinet that took over from him under Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN”.

Continuing, Bamidele said, “for 11 and half years, I was a member of Asiwaju Tinubu’s cabinet in Lagos State. I was there to see what Asiwaju was capable of doing and under his watch, we created a new Lagos. And today, anyone who goes to Lagos, would know that it is not the same Lagos that they knew before Asiwaju came in, in 1999”.

“The Lagos Asiwaju Tinubu inherited in 1999 was a Lagos of refuse, a Lagos of insecurities and a Lagos of transportation and traffic jams. All of those things now, have become a thing of the past and they have taking it beyond the current level to also deploying trained infrastructures technology across the State”, he submitted. 

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Speaking on behalf of the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji at the Ekiti State GICC inauguration, his Special Adviser on Political Affairs, Chief Olajide Awe, urged the members of the different Committees at the State and local government areas to see their assignments as a call to duty to mobilize for the party’s Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the February 25th presidential election, in all the nooks and crannies of the State. 

Governor Oyebanji however promised to support the Ekiti GICC to ensure they achieve there desired goal come February 25th, 2023 by electing Asiwaju Tinubu as the next president of the Country.

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