National
leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is
clearly still excited about his party’s nationwide victory at the
recently concluded elections.
On Sunday, he noted how he and
other party officials were mocked at and derided when they conceived the
idea of forcing the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, out of power two
years ago.
Tinubu who was represented by the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode,
at the African Young Entrepreneurs Empowerment Nigeria, AYEEN 2015
programme in Lagos, weekend, urged youths not to ever give up on their
ideas “even if no one believes in you.”
Tinubu said, “If I didn’t
believe in the bold initiative, I wouldn’t have lent myself to the
unprecedented merger of the political parties that became the APC. We
wouldn’t have challenged the incumbent party controlling the central
government, People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
“There is no
incumbent that has ever lost an election in this country. At the
beginning of that journey, we were laughed at, we weren’t given a
chance. We were told that we have embarked on an exercise in futility.
Yet we believed in the justness of our call. The criticism didn’t deter
us but encouraged us.
“That exercise has become a history-making
exercise. The party that was described as dead on arrival has, however,
given birth to a new government, spirit and better democracy.”
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