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Tinubu news today, latest news on Asiwaju, APC news, July 20 2022

Today, Wednesday, July 20, 2022 on update on Bola Tinubu, IDOMA VOICE looks at the latest activities, news on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

1. The Director General of Asiwaju Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organisation, Adebayo Shittu, has claimed that Muslims make up 65% of the southwestern part of Nigeria.

Shittu was justifying the decision of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, to pick a fellow Muslim, Kashim Shettima, as his running mate.

2. General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has debunked reports making the rounds that he has endorsed Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate in the 2023 general election.

RCCG dismissed the report of the endorsement, saying Pastor Adeboye and the RCCG have not and would not endorse any candidate.

3. The All Progressives Congress (APC) Muslim youths have rejected the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as the running mate to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the forthcoming presidential election.
They want Tinubu to replace the former governor of Borno with a Christian political leader or cleric from the North without any delay to enhance the party’s fortunes ahead of the polls.

4. A group, Tinubu Support Organisation (TSO), is confident last weekend’s defeat of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the Osun governorship election will not affect the chances of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the next year presidential election.

TSO also described the controversy over the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as the running mate on the basis of the same faith as unwarranted and diversionary.

5. A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, Elton Onwu, on Monday slammed critics crediting the presidential flagbearer of the APC, Bola Tinubu, with a defeatist statement after the outcome of the Osun State governorship election.
According to him, the post was lifted from his page by some unknown persons, shared on various social media platforms and subsequently published by online newspapers.

6. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says Nigerians will suffer if they continue to recycle politicians in leadership positions.

In an opinion piece where he analysed the three major presidential candidates – Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi — the senior advocate said none of them is a perfect fit for the office.

7. A group of legal practitioners under the Lawyers Network for Bola Ahmed Tinubu 2023 has stated it would aggressively canvass and promote the candidacy of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The convener, Dotun Ajulo, who spoke at a briefing on Tuesday in Lagos said: “Arising from our last meeting in Osun State, we discovered that as lawyers, our place in the society wields so much influence.

8. The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu has reacted to Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo’s successful surgery.

Tinubu wished Osinbajo a speedy recovery.

9. A United Kingdom-based organization, Atlas Global, has announced that a social media platform has been created for the standard flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, to commemorate the former Lagos State governor’s 30 years in politics.

According to the group, this will allow Nigerians to have access to the presidential candidate.

10.
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Abayomi Mumuni has said the recent defeat of the APC in the 2022 gubernatorial election will not affect the changes of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of APC in 2023.

Mumuni, who contested in a gubernatorial election on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) in 2011 in Lagos State, made this disclosure on Tuesday.

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