{"id":12601,"date":"2019-07-10T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=12601"},"modified":"2019-07-10T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:24:39","slug":"12601","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/12601","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bola Tinubu, a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to insinuations of him contesting for the presidency in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu distanced himself from reports of him running for the highest political office in the country in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He made this known while renouncing a group known as \u201cAsiwaju Reloaded Ambassadors\u2019 Nigeria\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The group made face caps, T-shirts, leaflet carrying his pictures embossed on them with the message \u201cTinubu 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, in a series of tweets denied the group and its materials in circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu\u2019s denial was contained in a series of tweets signed by his Media Office and posted on his official Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen pictures of face caps, T shirts, shirts and even leaflets with Bola Tinubu 2023 embossed on them purportedly by a faceless group which christened itself \u2018Asiwaju Reloaded Ambassadors\u2019 Nigeria\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither the group nor its souvenirs are known to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>We hereby, through this medium, categorically deny any knowledge of the group and dissociates Asiwaju Tinubu from the group\u2019s unsolicited and unwarranted materials,\u201d the tweet reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bola Tinubu, a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to insinuations of him contesting for the presidency in 2023. 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