The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, has urged the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement to campaign for President Bola Tinubu’s second term bid based on his administration’s performance statistics.
Abbas, who declared that it will be easy to sell the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate to Nigerians and secure well over 10 million votes for the president, said the re-election campaign will rest on facts and figures, showing how the Tinubu administration has made remarkable progress since taking over in 2023.
The speaker said this in Abuja on Wednesday when he hosted the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement led by its National Coordinator, Sunday Adekanbi Asuku, on a courtesy visit to his office.
Abbas in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Musa Krishi, warned that it will be a great disservice for Nigerians to vote for another presidential candidate after enduring the programmes and policies of the Tinubu administration, only for another President to reverse them.
With High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, as the Founder/Grand Patron, PBAT Door-to-Door Movement seeks to mobilise nationwide support and secure at least 10 million votes for President Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.
Speaker Abbas said: “I am glad that in your speech, you mentioned the approach and the methodology of your campaign, to make it differ from what it used to be in the past, where people made noise with no substance. This is a campaign that should be guided by facts and figures. Let people see and feel what the government has accomplished in the past three years.
“And it will not be a difficult thing because we all know what this government has done in all the 36 states of the federation. So, it will be a campaign that will be guided principally by wisdom, issues, maturity, and facts and figures. Once you stay on course with these five noble things that I mentioned, you cannot get it wrong.”
Abbas, who noted that “there is no establishment at the national level that is closer to the grassroots than the House of Reps,” said the parliament remains a major pillar of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the current administration.
“I assure you we will continue to be part of the ambassadors that will continue to enlighten the people about the wisdom of continuity, because in a country where over 40 out of 60 years of its existence was managed badly, no president or leader, no matter how good they are, will correct the wrongs of the past within four years.
“So, it will be a very terrible mistake for Nigerians to reverse the modest gains that we have recorded from 2023 to date. People have sacrificed because of the policies that have been brought on board to solve those historic, decadent policies. People have paid prices for it. So, for us to now pick somebody to discard, all those sacrifices and modest achievements will not be justice to ourselves,”he added.
