Major General Muhammadu Buhari (ret.), the President, has arrived in Lagos State, Nigeria’s economic capital, to attend the APC presidential campaign rally’s final leg.
At 2:35 p.m., Buhari’s Leonardo AW139 helicopter from Murtala Muhammed International Airport landed at the National Stadium, where he was taken to the 25,000-seat Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere. location of the rally.
Buhari is in Lagos to help the APC official up-and-comer, Bola Tinubu, and his running mate, Kashim Shettima.
Tinubu, who served as governor of Lagos from 1999 to 2007, won the most votes out of 23 candidates in the APC’s primary elections in June 2022 and became the party’s presidential candidate.
He announced Kashim Shettima, a former governor of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria, as his running mate a month later.
Buhari will make his tenth appearance at the Lagos rally since the APC campaign began on November 15, 2022, in Plateau State.
Sokoto, Katsina, Imo, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Bauchi, Yobe, Gombe, Plateau, and Lagos are among the states he has visited thus far.
The rally on Tuesday comes one day before the Independent National Electoral Commission’s approved deadline for all candidates to wrap up their campaigns.
Additionally, it occurs four days prior to the elections for the National Assembly and President that will take place on February 25, 2023.
Saturday’s election will feature 18 candidates for the presidency.
However, only four of those candidates are acknowledged by the majority of Nigerians.
They include Bola Tinubu of the APC, Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former Kano State Governor who is running on the New Nigeria Peoples Party ticket.
All four candidates have stated their desire to win the presidency and lead Africa’s most populous state over the past 96 days of campaigning.
Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, and Kwankwaso have all pledged to revive the struggling economy, combat widespread insecurity, and eradicate endemic corruption in light of the issues that have dominated Nigerian society.