2023: Apugo rules out supporting Tinubu, insists Obi’s candidacy reducing Biafra agitation

By Adeleye Kunle

Member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Congress from Abia State, Ochiagha Benjamin Apugo, has adduced reasons he is not supporting the 2023 presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu, despite being a party chieftain.

Track News recalls that Tinubu had, in June this year, emerged as the APC’s presidential flag bearer.

The former Lagos State governor scored 1,271 votes to defeat his closest contenders, Rotimi Amaechi, who pulled 316 votes and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who scored 235 votes.

However, Ochiagha Apugo, while addressing a cross-section of journalists at the Nkata Ibeku country home in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State recently, maintained that he was not aware of Tinubu’s presidential bid as he was neither informed nor consulted by the ex-Lagos governor before or during the concluded presidential primary election conducted by the party leadership.

“I don’t know him as a presidential candidate of APC. I am on the same level as him in APC.

“Tinubu has not talked to me, how do I support someone whom I don’t know his political ambition. And nobody has come to say Tinubu sent him to see me”.

On the Muslim-Muslim tickets fielded by the All Progressives Congress for the 2023 presidential elections, Apugo opined that Nigerians are yearning for competent, and responsive leadership at all levels of the country, insisting that the party’s decision in fielding a presidential candidate and running-mate of the Muslim backgrounds would not in any way affect his personal choice of presidential candidate and his decision not to support or vote the presidential candidate of the APC