The Senator representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Opeyemi Bamidele, has felicitated with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on his emergence as the presidential candidate of the party.

Bamidele, a former commissioner under Tinubu-led administration in Lagos State, said winning the keenly-contested presidential primaries confirmed Tinubu’s “wizardry in politicking” and how strong his stature has become in national politics.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal matters, said this in a statement he personally issued to congratulate the APC National Leader on his victory in the party’s presidential primaries.

Bamidele said APC would win the 2023 presidential election with Tinubu on the ballot for the ruling party, describing him as “an enigma, with wide and electrifying network of friends development partners who can facilitate victory for APC”.

The Senator, who doubles as the Chairman of Southern Senators Forum, added that Tinubu’s political dexterity and astuteness in building men and setting up strong and unbreakable team to lead Nigeria would assume national dimension with him as the President periscoping his antecedents in Lagos as a governor .

Bamidele further extolled President Muhammadu Buhari and the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee for conducting a free, fair and credible primaries, saying the election buttressed the point that the APC “stands tall in promotion of democratic ethos”.

He said: “Let me, for myself and on behalf of the Southern Senators Forum of the 9th Senate, congratulate my leader and mentor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his victory at the poll.

“In fact, this was a victory well earned and deserved. It is also a victory so sweet and so timely at an extremely crucial stage of our democratic growth and nation building.

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“I salute those who contested with him for their brotherly and sportsmanship spirits.

“I appreciate most especially Governor Kayode Fayemi, Governor Abubakar Badaru, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Ajayi Borroffice and others for showing patriotic zeal and stepping down for this living legend in respect of his contributions to democratic growth.

“Senator Tinubu had been recognised as a strong pillar of democracy for 32 years, building men and defending democracy at the risk of his life. He represents one of the tripod and fulcrums on which democracy turns and rotates in the country.

“I owe the unwavering belief that with Asiwaju in the saddle, Nigeria’s political and economic prosperities will blossom, given his high proclivity for creativity, harnessing global corporate and diplomatic networks at his disposal; and banking on his experience as a former Senator and Governor with broad network of contacts and allies within and outside of Nigeria who I am sure cannot wait to contribute to our genuine efforts to turn around the socio-economic and political fortunes of Nigeria,” Bamidele stated.

The Star