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Tinubu Vows To End DisCos’ Extortion, Estimated Billing



The presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday expressed concern over what he described as extortion by DisCos across the country and vowed to end estimated billing across the country come 2023.


Tinubu who described the DisCos across the country as extortionist said that Nigerians will no longer go through the agony of the extortion through estimated billing if elected President come 2023.


The APC standard bearer said the 16-year misrule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) brought Nigeria to its knees, adding that the APC government is rebuilding the nation’s sectors destroyed by the PDP.


Tinubu made the observation at the Pa Ngele Orunta Township Stadium, Abakaliki, during the Ebonyi State presidential rally and Ebonyi governorship campaign flag-off.


He promised to revamp the education sector, the health sector and restore the country’s economy, adding that as president of the country, Nigeria will witness a great turnaround.


Tinubu said his administration will also focus more on the transport sector of the country, noting that the transport sector would enable traders, farmers and other businesses in the country to thrive.


The former Lagos State governor disclosed that the education of the Nigerian child is important for today and tomorrow, saying education is the greatest weapon against poverty.


He stated that he will hold talks with all the agitators in the country and find a lasting solution to the wave of insecurity in the country which, he said, had affected the country greatly.


Tinubu urged Nigerians to elect visionary leaders that will lead the country to become a viable nation and assured the people of South East of transforming the region to the Taiwan of Africa.


Earlier in his address, Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi had urged Nigeria to eschew all


forms of tribal -religious and sectional politics and assured the South East that the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the president of the country will benefit the South-East region.


The rally also witnessed the defection of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate in Ebonyi State, Chief Ikechukwu Nwankwo, and that of the former Minister for Culture and Tourism who was also a Senatorial aspirant under the PDP, Ambassador Franklin Ogbuewu.


Tinubu was accompanied to the rally by the governors of Imo, Cross River, Borno, Jigawa and Kebbi. Others at the rally included the national chairman of the party represented by the deputy national chairman, South, Chief Emma Eneukwu, among other national officers of the party.

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