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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Coalition of Political Parties in Lagos State (COPPILS), has endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as the next president of Nigeria.
The coalition, comprising 28 registered and deregistered political parties in the state, said their choice is based on Tinubu’s track records, which is visible in the public for all to see.
The group also endorsed the re-election bid of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for another term in office and all other APC candidates.
COPPILS pledged to mobilise over two million non-APC members’ votes across the state for both the party’s presidential and governorship candidates.
Speaking at the endorsement and formal launch of 10,000 foot soldiers for Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu on Thursday, the convener of the coalition, Akinola Obadia, said the initiatives Tinubu brought into governance in Lagos State are worthy to be replicated at the national level.
“The principled patriotism of Asiwaju in history and his advancement of democratic ideals right from the days of NADECO, sustaining the principles, politics and legacies of Awoism as the only surviving Alliance for Democracy (AD) governor in the South West in 2003 and his hand of fellowship with the North and Buhari in 2015.
“That singular act led to the South West playing national politics for national development and his consistent monumental infrastructural growth in Lagos State that qualify Lagos to stand on its own as a country.
“For us in Coalition of Political Parties in Lagos State, the basis of our choice for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is his track records which are visible for all to see,” he said.
The political parties that expressed Tinububand Sanwo-Olu include AD, UPN, UPP, NPC, ACPN, CPN, BNPP, PPP, PPA, NUP, UP, LM, Mega Party, MMN and FJP.
Others are NCMP, GDPN, APA, MAJA, AGAP, ID Party, RPN, Green Party, Hope Democrats, DA, C4C party, NPM and Independent Democrats.