ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday, met in Abuja to deliberate on the party’s manifesto.
Others present during the crucial meeting are members of the APC National Working Committee (NWC).
The meeting is coming few days to the official commencement of campaigns by political parties for the 2023 general elections.
Voiceofnaija.ng could not ascertain the details of the meeting as at the time of filing this report.
Recall that Tinubu had barely two weeks after his emergence as the APC presidential candidate, denied a document prepared by some of his associates as his manifesto which went viral.
Reacting to the report, the Director, Media and Communication, Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement, said that Tinubu is working on an all-embracing manifesto.
He said: “Asiwaju Tinubu, in consultation with the party, experts in various fields and a broad section of the populace, through an empirical and evidence-based approach, is working on an all-embracing manifesto that will be presented to Nigerians when it is ready, before the official campaign begins in September.”
Meanwhile, APC in the 2015 and 2019 general elections, centered its manifesto and campaigns on security, corruption and the economy.
Nigerians are eager to know what the party has to offer differently or in addition to the existing trajectory, in the 2023.
A stakeholder in the APC told Daily Trust that the party would again peg its campaign on the economy, corruption and security.
A member of the APC National Executive Committee (NEC) and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, also said: “You and I know that the major problems of this country are insecurity, corruption and the economy. So I don’t think there would be any major changes from the 2015 and 2019 campaign principles of APC.”