Ajibola Basiru the Spokesman of the Senate has expressed optimism in Bola Ahmed Tinubu the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
Basiru stated this on Wednesday, while making an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
The lawmaker said that the party will work very hard to ensure that the Bola Ahmed Tinubu aspiration to become president finds expression on the platform of the party in 2023.
He said: “We will arrest the situation and ensure that all of us work assiduously for the emergence of Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the platform of the APC in the 2023 general elections.
“I’m very optimistic that our party will win the 2023 presidential election.“I will also say that just as we have senators that feel aggrieved they are not returning, you will also know that in those constituencies, there are also senators who are itching to ensure that they win elections and get into the 10th Assembly.”
Earlier this week, President Muhammadu Buhari met with some APC senators who were unhappy over the end result of primary elections in their respective states.
A total of 22 lawmakers had threatened to defect from the party following the alleged injustice resulting from lack of democracy which is expected to be practiced internally within the party, but it’s principles were not dominant during the primary elections.
Already a total of seven APC senators have already jumped ship.
The seven senators include, the immediate past Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, representing Kebbi North, former governor of Kebbi State, Adamu Aliero, Senator representing President Buhari in Katsina North, Ahmad Babba-Kaita, former Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, among others, have since jumped ships to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP.
