Senator Dayo Adeyeye has boasted that the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate will receive at least 14 million votes from the south west.
Adeyeye was responding to a recent letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to youths in the country to support Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, to win the 2023 election.
Obasanjo’s has received knocks from not a few leaders of the ruling party since he wrote the letter a few days ago.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, Adeyeye, the National Chairman, South West Agenda for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, SWAGA said Obasanjo’s letter will not have any impact on the chances of Tinubu to emerge winner next year, ahead Obi and Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
He said past records of the former governor of Lagos state will speak for him, adding that his “contributions to nation-building in the last three decades will work in his favour above other contenders.”
Senator Adeyeye said, “Obasanjo’s endorsement of LP candidate will have absolutely no negative impact on the election of Asiwaju Tinubu; we are in the South West here and we know the politics of the region.
“The former president, Chief Obasanjo, has the right to endorse any candidate, and it is also our constitutional right to support and canvass for whoever we like. I can tell you that the people of South West, even the people of Egba land where Obasanjo comes from, will vote massively for Tinubu and he will win.
“As SWAGA, we have met over 300 traditional rulers in Yoruba land, and the candidate himself has done that too and all of them have endorsed him. Afenifere has endorsed him including all Yoruba leaders, what Obasanjo has done will not have any impact on the chances of Bola Tinubu in the forthcoming election.”
