2023 Election: Why I Visited Tinubu – Al-Makura

Former Governor of Nasarawa State, Sen. Umaru Al-Makura, has opened up on why he visited the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Naija News reports that Al-Makura paid a courtesy visit to the former Governor of Lagos State yesterday.

In a statement made available to newsmen hours after through Ibraheem Muhammad, his media aide, Al-Makura said he visited the APC presidential candidate to register his loyalty and support ahead of the 2023 polls.

He said: “I visited the presidential candidate of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to register my firm loyalty and support to him, ahead of the 2023 general elections.

“I and my teeming supporters across different backgrounds have been sensitising the electorate to support and vote for Tinubu and his running mate Sen. Kashim Shettima.”

He noted that while most of the party’s campaign rallies are taking place in the cities, his team was taking the campaigns to the electorate at the grassroots.

Al-Makura added: “I support his campaign manifesto which has captured plans to ensure that the grassroots enjoy dividends of democracy.

“I told Sen. Tinubu that his visit to the grassroots at Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State has rekindled the hope of the people at the grassroots.

“I also told him that supporting the grassroots people will enhance peace, reduce rural urban migration and enhance growth and development.”

According to him, Tinubu expressed gratitude with the visit and promised to ensure that every Nigerian benefitted from his policies of inclusion toward enhancing the nation’s socio-economic growth and development.