{"id":75179,"date":"2022-10-28T11:36:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/presidency-my-ambition-not-for-personal-selfish-interest-tinubu-replies-akintoye"},"modified":"2022-10-28T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:53:02","slug":"presidency-my-ambition-not-for-personal-selfish-interest-tinubu-replies-akintoye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-my-ambition-not-for-personal-selfish-interest-tinubu-replies-akintoye","title":{"rendered":"Presidency: My ambition not for personal, selfish interest \u2013 Tinubu replies Akintoye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu has said his ambition is not out of personal or selfish interest.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu explained that he is running for the presidency due to his readiness to serve Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>He was reacting to a comment by the leader of the Yoruba Nation group, Professor Banji Akintoye, that his presidential ambition was personal and not in the interest of the Yoruba people.<\/p>\n<p>The APC presidential candidate said Akintoye\u2019s remark was malicious and unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking through the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu vowed to resist any attempt to derail his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tinubu, Akintoye\u2019s comment was misplaced and divisive.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads, \u201cOur attention has been drawn to an unfortunate, misdirected, misplaced and divisive statement credited to Prof Banji Akintoye, in which his group threatened to pull the South West out of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find it quite preposterous the Professor\u2019s sweeping outlandish accusation that Bola Ahmed Tinubu is only pursuing his PERSONA interest in running for the presidency of Nigeria. Such a statement is malicious and unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is pertinent to state that Tinubu is contesting for Nigeria\u2019s presidency because of his readiness to render unflinching service to Nigerians and because of his abiding faith in a strong, united, and prosperous Nigeria where every man and woman, regardless of their ethnicity and religious beliefs, can be proud and prosperous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said most of the issues raised by Akintoye had been addressed in his Action Plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu has said his ambition is not out of personal or selfish interest. Tinubu explained that he is running for the presidency due to his readiness to serve Nigerians. He was reacting to a comment by the leader of the Yoruba Nation group, Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":75178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14],"tags":[1570,2140,4814,254,158,945],"class_list":["post-75179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-akintoye","tag-nigeria","tag-presidency","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Presidency: My ambition not for personal, selfish interest \u2013 Tinubu replies Akintoye - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The All Progressives Congress, APC, 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