The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, may have been exploiting seeming cross-party support behind the scene, culminating into the appointment of a serving Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator in the National Assembly into the APC Presidential campaign council.
A former Governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, representing Enugu East Senatorial District in the National Assembly on the PDP platform, was named among the APC presidential campaign team to mobilise support Tinubu for the 2023 presidential election while still a member of the PDP.
APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, was gathered to have expressed that the support for Tinubu goes beyond the APC, but spread across party line, saying Tinubu has “cross-party alignment”.
Morka further declared: “The presidential campaign is not necessarily about party membership; it is about your support for the candidate. People who believe in the candidate are very free to work for the candidate that they support.
“Our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is a candidate that enjoys widespread multi-partisan support. The support for our candidate is not limited to APC members only; he enjoys support from others who know him and who trust in his ability to deliver.”
Nnamani had, however, earlier in the year extolled Tinubu’s leadership skills, recalling that they were both governors in the same tenures and work together in certain areas.