Arrangements have reached its crescendo by the leadership of Cross River State All Progressives Congress APC to play host to the party presidential flagbearer, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his running mate Kashim Shettima, in town hall meeting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital today.
The deputy director in the Presidential Campaign Council/ chairman, Media and Publicity Committee of the Local Organising Committee, APC presidential candidate’s visit to Cross River State for South South zonal town hall meeting, Dr Julius Okputu, disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Calabar.
He said: “We are fully prepared for Asiwaju’s visit to Calabar for a town hall meeting with people of South South Nigeria.
“Preparations are in top gear to give a warmth welcome to our presidential candidate, Ahmed Tinubu who will join us on Tuesday in a town hall meeting with the people of South South.
“The state has so much to put in place for the incoming president to implement especially in the area of agro-industrialisation, job creation, roburst manufacturing and sustained innovation, establish a national security architecture to obliterate terror, banditry, kidnapping among others.
“Our expectation is that the South South would have something to present in their agenda”.Â
While describing Tinubu as a man with track record who governed Lagos state with policies and initiative that branded and separated the state from ordinary Nigerian box, he stressed that with Tinubu at the helms of affairs, Nigeria would be great once again.
He said the APC presidential candidate and his deputy are the only capable handle to revamp economy of the nation in 2023 and urged well meaningful Nigerians not to hesitate to cast their votes in favour of the APC presidential candidate.