PDP chieftain, Raymond Dokpesi has endorsed Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the 2023 Presidency.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Chairman Emeritus of DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has declared support for the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2023 general elections.
Dokpesi is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party,
He also said he was supporting a northern presidency in the 2023 elections because they had been marginalised with the death of former President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua in 2010.
Dokpesi said, it will not be fair should power return to the South in 2023, even though President Muhammadu Buhari would have spent eight years.
Dokpesi stated these in an interview with journalists in Abuja, FCT on Saturday as part of activities marking his 70th birthday.
Dokpesi said he was canvassing for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for President in 2023 because they had been childhood friends.
He said, “Let me tell you that Bola Ahmed Tinubu, before he became governor, when he was still in Mobil, you know the Headquarters of Mobil is just directly in front of my house in Lagos.
“As young men, we ate and drank together; we were close friends before he became governor.
“He is a philanthropist; he is kind-hearted. He is supportive of the ordinary person available, and he has brought about bringing hope to people (sic).
“For 2023, I wish him the very best in whatever he puts his hands on. So, it has nothing to do with politics; it is a matter of the good relationship we have always had and I cherish it and I want to keep it.”
Dokpesi added that he did not believe that Jonathan would join the APC as being rumoured and had not told anybody.
He said his support for northern presidency was in line with PDP agreement during the party’s convention in 2006.
