LALONG WAS CONSIDERED BUT…!
Truth be told alot of waters passed under the bridge that people didn’t know about. As an insider of the Tinubu Support Campaign Team, I am among those that pushed for a Lalong candidature as a Vice Presidential nominee of our Party the APC.
We pushed to the level that myself and two other members were summoned to a boardroom for a proper engagement and analysis.
In all fairness, we were shown the results of Gov Lalong’s victories both during his first election and reelection as a Governor. The Margin between him and the PDP candidate was nothing to write home about. We were also told of how Rt Hon. Yakubu Dogara too was one of their choices but also he comes from a minority in his state in Bauchi state.
More worrisome to the team too is the glaring fact that the Christendom seem to have started campaigning for an Obi candidature openly and most of the Christians in the north have already taken sides with Obi and few others with Atiku based on the choice of Governor Okowa.
On the other side in the core north where majority of the votes are, they are demanding for a Muslim VP to deliver Tinubu. Then the reality trickled on the team that for it to win majority of the votes in the North, they have to get a popular candidate from the North that first and foremost has the votes from his state then the adjoining states.
We were then shown the wide margin governor Shettima got from his state in both elections and that of it’s supporting state Yobe to which they always go in the same direction.
Don’t also forget that this is the same zone that Atiku comes from.
Truly of a fact that I know, Gov Lalong and Rt. Hon. Dogara were considered but the numbers didn’t Add Up!
Don’t forgot that in Politics, its the numbers that matters the most and you have to win an election before you can govern.
I honestly believe in Tinubu’s ability to deliver as a President come 2023. Records don’t lie…
Comrade Prince Miaphen
