Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, said he will not disclose his preferred presidential candidate in the 2023 elections.
Ngige said this on Friday while featuring on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television.
When asked whether he would endorse Bola Tinubu, his party’s presidential candidate or back Peter Obi, the flagbearer of the Labour Party, Ngige described the question as “difficult”.
“I have told you that I’m not active in politics,” he said.
“I’m not active in politics for now because I am facing a national assignment.
“Both of them are my friends. My choice will be in the ballot box. Whether conscience or no conscience, on that day in February, I’ll have one vote.”
The minister added that “it is a secret ballot, and I shouldn’t tell Nigerians what I would do secretly”.
“Both men and their track records are good, but you must go into the nitty-gritty of your analysis,” he said.
“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu came to Lagos when there was nothing. I lived in Lagos so I can tell you. He did what he was supposed to do and reformed the financial system, and built a solid foundation and roadmap for his successors.”
Ngige said Obi built on the foundation he laid as governor of Anambra state.
“For the first tenure, he did not do infrastructure, but then he realized that it was a grievous mistake,” he said.
When asked to rate whether Tinubu performed better than Obi, the minister declined.
Obi was the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2003 Anambra governorship election, but he lost to Ngige who was the PDP candidate.
Obi had challenged the outcome of the polls and after nearly three years of litigation, Ngige’s victory was overturned by the court of appeal on March 15, 2006.
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Posted: at 8-10-2022 09:49 PM (2 years ago) | Addicted Hero
“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu came to Lagos when there was nothing. I lived in Lagos so I can tell you. He did what he was supposed to do and reformed the financial system, and built a solid foundation and roadmap for his successors.”
WORD!!!!!!!
Posted: at 8-10-2022 09:56 PM (2 years ago) | Grande Master
Don't mind them. They should ask Fashola and Aregbesola who they are voting for? Don't waste your vote. Vote Peter Obi. Yoruba have had their turn. It's our turn. Awa lokan
Posted: at 8-10-2022 11:09 PM (2 years ago) | Gistmaniac
“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu came to Lagos when there was nothing. I lived in Lagos so I can tell you. He did what he was supposed to do and reformed the financial system, and built a solid foundation and roadmap for his successors.”
WORD!!!!!!!
,,,,that was a talk from a lunatic person like u,,,birds of feathers flocks together,,, only an insane person will talk such a trash adorned by his fellow insane person. Don't forget that Lagos state was a federal capital of Nigeria few decades ago maybe u were not born by then or u were very little, so nothing was build in lagos as a federal capital territory then? So none of the past governors of Lagos state built anything? Only Tinubu built Lagos state,words from lunatics
Posted: at 9-10-2022 12:20 AM (2 years ago) | Upcoming
Quote from: gogoman on 8-10-2022 09:56 PM “Asiwaju Bola Tinubu came to Lagos when there was nothing. I lived in Lagos so I can tell you. He did what he was supposed to do and reformed the financial system, and built a solid foundation and roadmap for his successors.”
WORD!!!!!!!
,,,,that was a talk from a lunatic person like u,,,birds of feathers flocks together,,, only an insane person will talk such a trash adorned by his fellow insane person. Don't forget that Lagos state was a federal capital of Nigeria few decades ago maybe u were not born by then or u were very little, so nothing was build in lagos as a federal capital territory then? So none of the past governors of Lagos state built anything? Only Tinubu built Lagos state,words from lunatics
hahahaha words from lunatics truly, that guy is something else
Posted: at 9-10-2022 01:03 AM (2 years ago) | Upcoming
,,,,that was a talk from a lunatic person like u,,,birds of feathers flocks together,,, only an insane person will talk such a trash adorned by his fellow insane person. Don't forget that Lagos state was a federal capital of Nigeria few decades ago maybe u were not born by then or u were very little, so nothing was build in lagos as a federal capital territory then? So none of the past governors of Lagos state built anything? Only Tinubu built Lagos state,words from lunatics
shut up and go to bed you bitch ass!!
Posted: at 9-10-2022 01:04 AM (2 years ago) | Grande Master
“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu came to Lagos when there was nothing. I lived in Lagos so I can tell you. He did what he was supposed to do and reformed the financial system, and built a solid foundation and roadmap for his successors.”
WORD!!!!!!!
very stupid fulani man. Idiot
Posted: at 9-10-2022 06:12 AM (2 years ago) | Upcoming
“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu came to Lagos when there was nothing. I lived in Lagos so I can tell you. He did what he was supposed to do and reformed the financial system, and built a solid foundation and roadmap for his successors.”
WORD!!!!!!!
lunatic
Posted: at 9-10-2022 06:12 AM (2 years ago) | Upcoming
“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu came to Lagos when there was nothing. I lived in Lagos so I can tell you. He did what he was supposed to do and reformed the financial system, and built a solid foundation and roadmap for his successors.”
WORD!!!!!!!
Clap for yourself. So he came to Lagos when there were no industries, seaports, headquarters of almost all the banks in Nigeria, insurance companies, oil companies , flyovers and many others things ? Right? Tell us he discovered Lagos. Idiot.
Posted: at 9-10-2022 08:41 AM (2 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Before the emergence of Tinubu Lagos state was the safest place Nigeria. There were no area boys. Today there is a ministry of area boys with MC Oluomo as the commissioner.
Posted: at 9-10-2022 08:51 AM (2 years ago) | Gistmaniac
How can adults allow themselves to be deceived? That Lagos had nothing before Tinubu? Our Colonial Era and Post Colonial Era Capital? had nothing? Chineke !
What is the color beneath your skin?
Posted: at 9-10-2022 09:29 AM (2 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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