TINUBU’S CHANCES WILL NOT BE HARMED BY NEGATIVE NARRATIVES, ACCORDING TO THE PRESIDENCY’S YOUTH DIRECTORATE.

Negative narratives about the All Progressives Congress’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will have no impact on his chances of becoming Nigeria’s next president.

This was revealed by the Chairman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council in Osun state, David Asalu (Asler), during a strategic meeting with youths from the state’s 332 wards held at the Tinubu-Shettima campaign office in Osogbo.

He charged APC youths across the state to keep recruiting young people into the Tinubu-Shettima project in order to deliver the majority of youth votes for the party in the state’s upcoming elections.

“Regardless of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s marketability, we must also acknowledge the efforts of agents of distraction who are pushing negative narratives about the person of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Sen. Kashim Shettima. These individuals are making efforts to reach out to youths, telling them damaging stories about our candidate and his running mate. We are aware of the efforts to discredit Asiwaju and Shettima. And we must fight back.

“We must engage in collective rebuttal of the negative narratives that agents of evil are pushing against our candidate and his running mate.

“Massive recruitment of youths and students into Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s support base and making them mobilization agents themselves, to ensure that we take up the vast majority of voting youths in our State through the Wards is a major task for us to accomplish ahead of February 25,” he added.

Also speaking, the Directorate’s Secretary, Demola Adeyeye, stated that the meeting was held to review the Directorate’s activities with relevant stakeholders in order to improve its relationship with the state’s youth population ahead of the General Elections in February and March.

“We have been meeting different youths groups and organisations on the need to buy into the Tinubu-Shettima project, and the response we are getting is very encouraging. We are now working hard to ensure that every polling unit in Osun is adequately covered.

“We are stressing the need for serious legwork to convince older people that Tinubu’s project is the best for Nigeria at this time in our history. “This necessitates that we all go door-to-door,” he added.