A political support organisation, The Patriots Roundtable, on Sunday in Lagos, held its maiden town hall meeting, where it urged Nigerians to vote massively to elect the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, in the 2023 general elections.
The Patriots Roundtable, during the maiden town hall meeting, which held in Lekki area of Lagos, maintained that the Nigerian fragile union can be made stronger, more developmental and merit-worthy in the hands of Tinubu/Shettima ticket.
Themed: ‘The Nation, the People and Patriotic Leadership: The Asiwaju Example,’ the town hall meeting was presided over by the National Coordinator of The Patriots Roundtable, Prince Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu, and had in attendance members from across the country, including: the National Director of Media and Strategic Communications, Dr Emeka Nwosu, who represented by Uba Mohammed, the Assistant Director of Media and Strategic Communications;
the National Deputy Director, Contact and Mobilisation, Comrade Sam Adu, and a host others.
The group insisted that it is sworn to the indivisibility of the Nigerian union, where the nation is steered by genuine patriots, who will promote excellence instead of mediocrity, and spur national rectitude regardless of ethnic provenance or sectarian alliance.
In his speech at the meeting, the Natıonal Coordinator, Shodipe-Dosunmu,who is the Oloriekun of Olowogbowo, said, “We have arrived at this position with the proven, observable demonstration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s leadership precedents. He is a nation builder, an instinctive cultivator of talented men and women, indifferent to their ethnic or sectarian provenance. He is ultimately defined as accommodating the largeness of the best and the brightest.
“Tinubu is a builder of institutions, an instigator of the expanses of merit, aiding the growth of knowledge with the tools of distinction, a bold standard bearer of the best and the brightest of the Nigerian union.
“We do acknowledge that we are all flawed as human beings. We only struggle towards perfection. In this conflicting field of presidential candidates, we at the Patriots Roundtable have no doubt at all that the best option on the table for the viability and the sustainability of the Nigerian union towards nationhood is the Tinubu -Shettima ticket.
“This is our resolve, predicated on the indices of political balance, pivoted on the tableau of national acceptability, reposed on the doctrine of amity and progressive enlargement and beatific possibilities of the Nigerian space. This is our appeal to the larger Nigerian union.
“Let us vote for a promise keeper. Let us endorse a visionary team player and creative leader. Tinubu now stands atop of a distinguishable totem, shining in a pulchritude only the heavens can fathom. Fate is fate. You cannot quarrel with the certitudes of Heaven.”
Also speaking, the National Director of Media and Strategic Communication of the group, Dr Nwosu, who was represented by the Assistant Director, Media and Strategic Communication, Mohammed, said that the meeting is the first of its kind ever, where a national town hall meeting of such political magnitude would be put together by any support group of the APC presidential flag bearer, Asiwaju Tinubu, to canvas the utilitarian values of the Tinubu-Shettima ticket.
Saluting the courage of Shodipe-Dosunmu for his foresight, Nwosu stressed that the theme of the town hall meeting is quite apt, considering the crisis of development in our country, which largely derives from unpatriotic and poor leadership.
He said, “Our people desire and yearn for patriotic leadership which would truly deliver the real dividends of democracy to Nigerians, irrespective of tribe, religion and geography. Asiwaju Tinubu is a tried and tested leader, who can provide the patriotic leadership that would deliver the nation from the doldrums.
“The Patriots Roundtable did not make any mistake in rooting for the duo of Tinubu and Shettima. It is the winning ticket that, by God’s grace, would advance the economic and political fortunes of Nigeria, come 2023.
“Asiwaju has done it before in Lagos. We are supremely confident that he and Shettima are going to replicate the Lagos economic miracle at the national level.
“I enjoin all members of The Patriots Roundtable nationwide to work assiduously for the Tinubu-Shettima ticket to emerge winner in the 2023 presidential election.
“Let us start anew in national rebirth and salvaging attestations. Let us sweep clean the Augean stable of rot, of diseased corruption of virulent banditry and nepotistic withdrawal.
“There is no other way. This is our moral challenge. Let us seize the moment of rectifying the pervading national ills. This is our patriotic duty.”
The group’s National Deputy Director, Contact and Mobilisation, Comrade Adu, said that the people of Delta State will vote for Asiwaju Tinubu and his running mate and would ensure that they emerge winners in the 2023 presidential election.
He said, “We in Delta State will ensure that Asiwaju Tinubu wins the 2023 presidential election. He has the experience and the capacity to bring Nigeria out of the doldrums. We will ensure that the APC wins all the elections in Delta State. We are convinced that if Asiwaju wins, Deltans will win.”
