Some frontline members of the Senator Magnus Abe faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State have promised to deliver Rivers State for Senator Bola Tinubu should he secure the party’s presidential ticket in 2023.
The chieftains who, at an event in Port Harcourt on Saturday, spoke under the platform of the Bola Tinubu Vanguard also boasted that it was their support which made General Muhammadu Buhari emerge president in 2015.
Former Attorney General of Rivers State and Director General of Freedom House, Worgu Boms, said it has become clear that the APC national leader will emerge president come 2023.
“It’s become clearer that Tinubu will be president. When Tinubu becomes president, everybody will chop; it’s not like this one that only one man is chopping.”
“We were the ones that made Buhari president; we will make Tinubu president.”
On his part, Senator Wilson Ake said one thing Tinubu has going for him over his contenders for the priced APC presidential ticket is competence.
“When Tinubu was working for APC, nobody talked about his age. Now they are saying he is old. When you say ‘age-age-age’, you are not serious. Competence should not be traded for age. The young local government chairmen that we have, are they doing anything spectacular?”
