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2023: ‘Where Is Tinubu?' Trends As Campaign Kicks Off.

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A question, 'Where is Tinubu?’ is trending on Twitter as tweeps wonder about the whereabouts of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. The trend which blew up on Thursday has garnered thousands of tweets as of the time of filing this report. This question comes as the APC postponed its campaign council inauguration indefinitely while other political parties started their campaigns officially on Wednesday.  Popular activist, Aisha Yesufu tweeted, “My stance has never wavered and I pray to God it doesn’t. I am interested in Nigeria not the leaders. They are there to serve us. Where is Tinubu is trending. Same question I asked seven years ago of their then presidential candidate.” Penking said, "This is exactly how Buhari played hide and seek with us before the election until he won and ghosted all of us. Tinubu is planning to play the same card but Nigerians know better now. Election has commenced. Where is Tinubu?” "We started asking '

2023: Northern Elders’ Forum gives Obi, Tinubu, Atiku conditions.

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The Northern Elders Forum on Sunday night says it will subject candidates of various political parties seeking the votes of the north to a rigorous interrogation exercise until they are convinced about who has the capacity to fix the country. This clarification was made by NEF Spokesman, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, when he appeared on ‘Politics Today,’ a popular programme on Channels Television. Baba-Ahmed stated that the northern elders made a terrible mistake in 2015 when they charged the people to cede their bloc votes to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) without requesting his blueprint. He said, “We will subject all candidates including Atiku, Tinubu, Obi through a rigorous process and they had better be willing because, believe me, we carry the responsibility on our shoulders to advise people in the north where to go. I am not saying this to impress anybody. We will exercise that responsibility seriously. “What we promise not to do this time around was not to repeat