City Boy

Nigeria 2023: Tinubu returns home after ‘long, hard’ presidential campaign

By Ben Ezeamalu

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Posted on February 22, 2023 11:02

20230221_150518 © Bola Tinubu’s rally inside the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos on 21 February 2023. (photo: Ben Ezeamalu)
Bola Tinubu’s rally inside the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos on 21 February 2023. (photo: Ben Ezeamalu)

For the thousands of cheering supporters inside the Teslim Balogun Stadium, the octogenarian and septuagenarian that arrived at the venue of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) final rally in Lagos are Nigeria’s outgoing and incoming presidents respectively. 

President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate drove into the 25,000-capacity stadium a few minutes past 3 PM on Tuesday, accompanied by several of the country’s high-profile politicians.

Tinubu, 70, who was clad in his traditional white, flowing agbada and trademark cap waved a broom, his party’s symbol, at the crowd as the open-top bus moved around the stadium amidst cheers of ‘City Boy’ one of his numerous nicknames.

When it was his turn to address the crowd, Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos, assured President Buhari, 80, that “as you work hard for me, I’ll work hard for Nigeria. As you give Nigerians the hope to renew their faith in their country, I will sustain that hope.

“Those who look helpless today will be helpful in this country. All the agenda set in our programme – Renewed Hope manifesto – will be pursued diligently, vigorously, with all our

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