President Bola Tinubu has formally accepted his nomination as the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, after winning the primary.
In his acceptance speech on Sunday, Tinubu pledged to place Nigeria on an “irreversible path of economic expansion and democratic consolidation” if given another four years in office.
Prompt News Online reports that the president emerged winner having polled 10,999,162 votes to defeat the only challenger, Stanley Osifo, who garnered mere 16,503 votes.
The Chairman of the APC Presidential Primaries Election Committee, Senator Pius Anyim, announced the results in Abuja.
He was thereafter presented with the party’s flag and certificate of return by APC National Chairman Nentawe Yilwatda.
President Tinubu spoke, “In accepting this nomination, I renew my commitment to serve our nation with even greater determination.
“With another four years of discipline, focus and national cooperation, we will firmly place Nigeria on an irreversible path of economic expansion, industrialisation, energy security, infrastructural development, food sovereignty and democratic consolidation.”
On the economic hardship being experienced by Nigerians since the introduction of key reforms under his administration, Tinubu had this to say: “You have given me encouragement. Sometimes it is difficult, and I share the pain with you. I know what it is to reform an economy that was in tatters. If you lost sleep, I lost some too.
“If you have lost weight, I think I have lost some too. But I have always remembered one thing: in 2022, I asked for this job, you all supported me, and I got it, so I must do it.”
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