{"id":8563,"date":"2022-05-31T05:46:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8563"},"modified":"2022-05-31T07:02:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T07:02:37","slug":"how-tinubu-lectured-apc-presidential-screening-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8563","title":{"rendered":"How Tinubu Schooled APC Presidential Screening Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Frontline presidential aspirant Asiwaju Bola Tinubu last night appeared before the John Odigie-Oyegun-led All Progressives Congress (APC) screening panel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He answered questions bordering \u201con his upbringing, educational and professional background\u201d, his campaign spokesman Mr. Bayo Onanuga said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Onanuga, in a statement, said: \u201cHe confidently told the panel why he is qualified to fly the flag of APC as its presidential candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe cited his success as governor of Lagos State, his raising the internal revenue generation of the state from a paltry N600 million monthly, which has now grown to N51billion today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe also cited his invitation to Enron to begin the first state-backed power generation in Nigeria and how Nigeria will need to take the power transmission lines as a highway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cTinubu in his answers demonstrated vast knowledge in economic management and a perfect understanding of Nigeria\u2019s political economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe screening committee expressed satisfaction with Tinubu\u2019s knowledge of the economy and sociopolitical issues that are affecting the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tinubu was accompanied to the venue by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He arrived at about 5:50 pm to a large crowd of supporters led by James Abiodun Faleke, former Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir Lawal\u00a0 and chieftains of Tinubu Support Groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A source in the screening panel said Tinubu was ushered into Suite 312 venue at about 8:20 pm. He left after less than an hour with the panel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tinubu did not speak with reporters as he headed straight for his vehicle after the screening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Before the commencement of the screening at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, members of the screening panel were inaugurated by party chair Abdullahi Adamu behind closed doors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontline presidential aspirant Asiwaju Bola Tinubu last night appeared before the John Odigie-Oyegun-led All Progressives Congress (APC) screening panel. He answered questions bordering \u201con his upbringing, educational and professional background\u201d, his campaign spokesman Mr. Bayo Onanuga said. Onanuga, in a statement, said: \u201cHe confidently told the panel why he is qualified to fly the flag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5029,1655],"class_list":["post-8563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc-presidential-screening-panel","tag-asiwaju-bola-ahmed-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8569,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions\/8569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}