SENATOR Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has faulted the notion in certain quarters that her husband is over-ambitious.
Speaking at a pre-election strategic meeting with zonal, state and local government women leaders yesterday in Abuja, Oluremi insisted that her husband is eminently qualified to govern the country effectively.
Acknowledging challenges placed before her husband by unidentified forces, the senator representing Lagos Central at the National Assembly expressed optimism that her husband would triumph at the presidential election on February 25, saying: “This is our time. The popular saying, what a man can do, a woman too can do better. This is the decade of women. This is the time for women to take control again. Take control of our homes, so that we can build our homes and nation.
“My husband had not contested election since 2003. This year, it will be 20 years, so he did not just wake up and say it is my turn. You can serve other people for 20 years and make sure they excel. I don’t believe you can’t your own place.
“The Bible says when you build, you should inhabit, when you sow, you should be the first partner. It depends on how long you have invested.
“They told us we are buying people to come to rallies. God now said, what I am going to do, I can shut the heavens, so there is no money and you will see my glory. Are we not seeing God’s glory?
You all be patient. Be patient and go and vote. When you vote, shine your eyes and monitor until they count your votes.”
The APC women leader, Dr. Betta Edu, assured that Tinubu would leave no stone unturned in implementing the 35 per cent Beijing affirmative action if voted into power.
She charged the women coordinators to go and mobilise the 44.4 million women voters to cast their votes for Tinubu and all the candidates angling for various seats on the party’s platform.
