Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress Bola Tinubu, has told leaders of business community in the South-East how his government never discriminated against anyone when he served as Governor of Lagos State.
Tinubu said his government just wanted education for all as a means of total empowerment and never discriminated against anyone based on ethnicity or religion.
He spoke to a huge number of business leaders in the South East on Thursday.
“When we paid WAEC fees for children in Lagos, we did not ask what religion they were. Your faith is personal, eradicating poverty is our job,” he told them
This was just as some of the businessmen donated N1billion to support Tinubu’s Presidential bid, according to Governor Hope Uzodimma
Two thousand Of the businessmen according to the Governor, had contributed N1 billion to support the campaign of Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress.
He said membership of the group was drawn from the five states of the region.
“I am happy to say our people are fully in support of our Presidential candidate who has come to share his vision and plan for Nigeria and South East today. To support this aspiration the sum of N1billion naira has been raised by 2000 business owners across the South East states,” said Governor Uzodimma.
A spokesman for the group Emeka Mgbudem said the group believes in Nigeria and is committed to peace.
He said members contributed N500,000 each because they believe in Tinubu, after reading his Action Plan for Nigeria.
He said where an Ibo man puts his money, he puts his heart.
He however asked Tinubu to remove the numerous checkpoints on the roads in the region and also build the roads linking the state capitals in the region.
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Responding, Tinubu pledged to introduce technology in the clearing of goods at the ports that will render unnecessary the checkpoints on the roads.
He also promised to run a government where all Nigerians are treated equally.
Tinubu listed his plans to reawaken businesses in the South east region of the country adding that his administration would ensure that business thrive.
“Talking about potential that is pregnant with many things and never had a delivery. We will drive Nigeria’s potential to reality of delivery, of progressive life bar of industrialisation, progress, manufacturing and electricity.
“We know by empowering consumer, they definitely will empower others, the more we consume the more we produce, and if it is willingly given, expeditiously produced, stealing will stop,” the former Lagos State governor said.
Tinubu said he is in the Presidential race to bring progressive governance, forward looking governance.
He said “Hope is here.”
“It takes common sense, thinking, detailing and doing to bring success to life.Together, with the progressive governors in APC,we shall find and walk the road of a renewed hope.
“We shall establish industrial hubs throughout the nation and modernise the existing ones. We will encourage and facilitate greater Production in places like Owerri and Aba.
“At the same time,we shall broaden the opportunities for you to engage in more international commerce by steering more activities towards Port outside of Lagos such as O’Neil that must be activated.
“Those must be the borders that is connected with railway lines that evacuate goods without criminality and a vision to Owerri- Porthacourt and Aba-Porthercourt corridors becoming more active and lucrative.
Tinubu also said insecurity would be a thing of the past.
The APC presidential flag bearer emphasised the need for need for unity and and brotherhood even when the country is made up of different tribes, ethnicity and religion.
“They don’t even remember that they were in school before and they inherited the first stanza of Nigeria’s national anthem at independence, though tribes and tongue may differ in brotherhood we shall stand.
“So I am here a Yoruba man seeking the votes and support and encouragement and prayers of an Igbo man, what the difference in that? We are both carrying the same blood looking at the same God who is the creator and believing in the unity of our country,” Tinubu said.