February 19, (THEWILL) – The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Kano State, Bashir I. Bashir, has resigned membership of the party and declared support for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Bashir, who held a press conference at Horizon Hotel, Kano, before a mammoth crowd of supporters on Friday, vowed to use his platform known as: “Game Changers for Asiwaju/Shettima 2023,” with the slogan, “Sabon Lale (Swinging the Votes)”, to deliver Tinubu and other APC candidates in Kano.
He said: “We shall return to the fold of the All Progressives Congress, and I wish to inform you that we have just finished our Steering Committee meeting where the feedback from our constituencies was deliberated upon.
“The following decisions were made: That as a coalition of Labour Party (LP) Gubernatorial, Senatorial and House of Representatives, House of Assembly Candidates, Chairman and Members of the Presidential Campaign Council, Members of the Gubernatorial Campaign Council, and Zonal and State Coordinators, we have decided to endorse the candidature of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“We have also resolved to leverage our existing political structures to work on the mass mobilisation of voters and swinging of votes to ensure his (Tinubu’s) emergence as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the 2023 presidential election.
“We shall be known as Game Changers for Asiwaju/Shettima 2023. Our slogan is “Sabon Lale…” Swinging the Votes. We shall return to the fold of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Party.”
