\u2026I campaigned vigorously, shamed and crushed all my detractors at the polls<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
*\u201cOpposition party threw dust at me, engaged in a smear campaign, I kept my eyes on the prize, campaigned vigorously and emerged victorious as the JAGABAN of Nigeria Politics\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n *\u201cI will leave legacy projects across the length and breadth of Nigeria\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n *BY HABIB SEMIU\/<\/b>SENIOR POLITICAL Correspondent<\/i><\/b>, Abuja &\u00a0 GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/<\/b>AMERICA Senior Investigative Editor<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n THE \u2018JAGABAN of Nigeria Politics\u2019, President-elect of the recently concluded Nigeria\u2019s presidential poll, SENATOR BOLA AHMED TINUBU has openly informed Nigerians how he campaigned vigorously, fought hardest political battle of his life, shamed all detractors in the opposition camp whom he crushed to win the coveted prize as next occupant of Aso Rock. He explained that the opposition party threw dust at him, engaged in a smear campaign against him, but \u201cI kept my eyes on the prize, campaigned vigorously and emerged victorious at polls\u201d.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Asiwaju\u00a0 Tinubu said he went through what he described as a gruesome political campaign to win the 2023 presidential election. Tinubu stated this while speaking at the commissioning of the Rumuokwuta\/Rumuola flyover in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n He said he is happy for emerging victorious in the recently concluded presidential election despite the gruesome campaign. The President-elect said he fought hard during the campaign to emerge victorious at the poll.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Tinubu, however, said despite the hurdles and campaigns against him by the opposition party, he won the election.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The president-elect said, \u201cit is an honour and privilege to be in your midst today. I am a very happy man.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHappy because I went through a gruesome campaign, fought hard, supported by many of you, and I won\u201d.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Tinubu has assured that his administration will not marginalise any part of the country.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Tinubu stated, \u201cI will leave legacy projects across the length and breadth of Nigeria.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI will never forget the pivotal role the great and wonderful people of this state played in my victorious campaign to become the next president of this country. You have my eternal gratitude.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn his excellency, governor Wike, I see a man of principle. He took a principled stand that the presidency should be returned to the South; and he had the courage to stand by his convictions, not minding whose ox was gored.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHe is, indeed, a man of great integrity. He did not choose to serve his own interests, but rather, the interests of the nation and the people of Rivers state. I thank him for his selfless leadership.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Recall that the opposition parties; the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Labour Party, LP, have challenged the outcome of the poll, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC had declared Tinubu winner.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n CERTAINLY, Good journalism costs a lot of money. Without doubt, only good journalism can ensure the possibility of a good society, an accountable democracy, and a transparent government. We are ready to hold every corrupt government accountable to the citizens.<\/b> To continually enjoy free access to the best investigative journalism in Nigeria, we are requesting of you to consider making a modest support to this noble endeavor.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n By contributing to NAIJA STANDARD NEWSPAPER, you are helping to sustain a journalism of relevance and ensuring it remains free and available to all without fear or favor.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your donation is voluntary \u2014 please decide how much and how often you want to give. For offline donation, email: letters@nigeriastandardnewspaper.com or call +2348037128048 (Nigeria) or +16825834890 (United States of America)<\/b><\/p>\n [pff-paystack id=<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MAY 29 INAUGURATION: I Fought Hardest Political Battle, won Best Presidential Poll in Nigeria\u2019s History-TINUBU \u2026I campaigned vigorously, shamed and crushed all my detractors at the polls *\u201cOpposition party threw dust at me, engaged in a smear campaign, I kept my eyes on the prize, campaigned vigorously and emerged victorious as the JAGABAN of Nigeria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TINUBU-YE.webp\")
<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TINUBU-WO.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n