Tinubu’s wife flags off North-East APC women presidential campaign in Borno

 Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, wife of APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu

By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –

The wife of the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Mrs Olaremi Tinubu has flagged off the Northeast women APC presidential campaign rally in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

Fagging off campaign rally which was held at the Elkanemi Sport Centre, Maiduguri, on Saturday, Mrs. Tinubu said if voted into power in 2023, her husband will accord serious attention to women and youths empowerment, as well as girl child education

She said: “I will work together with Nana Shettima to address women empowerment, execute charity work, women empowerment and girl-child education in Nigeria. Because, if you educate a woman, you educate the whole society”

While commending women of Borno and Northeast in general for coming out en masse to demonstrate their support to her husband.

In his remarks, the Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum said “I have no other alternative than to deliver the state to the Tinubu/Shettima presidential team and the entire APC,” he declared, stating, “I will not let him (Kashin Shettima) down.”

He said while he was lecturing at the University of Maiduguri, the then Governor Kashim Shettima appointed him as Rector of the Ramat Polytechnic; after which he appointed him commissioner in his cabinet, where he also picked him to succeed him.

Governor Babagana Zulum

“We shall work assiduously to deliver more than 95 percent of the state to APC,.I therefore, urged the people of Northeast, especially the people of Borno to come out en-mass and elect Tinubu/Shettima come 2023 general elections,” Zulum said.

Also, the wife of the vice presidential candidate, Hajiya Nana Kashim Shettima, said they have a fantastic blueprint that would address the plight of women and children, especially orphans, widows and vulnerable children.

Mrs Shettima called on women in the Northeast to come out en masse and vote for Tinubu/Shettima for president and to ensure that Senator Binani is elected as governor of Adamawa state.

She said “as women, we should vote APC from top to bottom, so that all our candidates would be elected”.

In her goodwill message, the Deputy National Women leader of APC, Hajiya Zainab Ibrahim said Tinubu was the first government to pick woman as his deputy and from there, he set a precedent for other governors to emulate.

“If elected, Tinubu will raise women’s affirmative action in the country to over 35 percent” Zainab said.

The wife of the Presidential candidate was accompanied by the wife of the Vice Presidential candidate, Mrs Nansh Kashim Shettima, , wives of the Governors of Borno, Yobe, Kogi, Lagos, Kebbi, Gombe, cross river, Plateau and Niger States.

Others includes the wife of the Speaker of House of Representatives, Mrs Gbajsmika, the wives of the Former Governors of Yobe and Niger states, Mrs Khaduja Bukar Abba and Zainab Abubakar.