2023: ‘Please reach out and stop gloating’, Lauretta Onochie advises party’s supporters

*Cautions against opening old wounds

By KEMI KASUMU

When President Buhari said the aspirant who wins the presidential candidacy of APC must be magnanimous in victory, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu took him seriously and reached out to those who ran with him in the Presidential Primary race. He reached out to them.

These are the words of versatile Digital and Social Media Aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Madam Lauretta Onochie, in a statement she posted on her Facebook social media timeline on Tuesday.

Titled “PLEASE REACH OUT AND STOP GLOATING!”, the statement also urged followers and other supporters of politicians to behave matured and stop referring to those things said by principals in time of anger or politicking, if winning election is core to them.

She added that the party needs everyone to come on board but that those that are reluctant to come are doing so because, some other members are still talking about old things, which she said must now stop for the winning party to move forward.

Onochie said, “We too, must act as adults if we are going to win everyone back. It’s not right to keep repeating those words said in anger by our leader, Asiwaju. This is because many of our people are still hurting. It’s childish on our part, to keep throwing those words around and keeping the wounds still fresh.

“Let’s move on from those days when the camp was balkanised along lines of different aspirants. We need EVERYONE OF OUR PEOPLE TO COME ON BOARD. Some are reluctant because we are still throwing those words in their faces, constantly.

“Like our leader, Asiwaju himself has done, reaching out to those he defeated, let’s be magnanimous in victory by reaching out in a matured way to everyone we know,” the Presidential Aide, adding that it begins with her.

“That’s what I’ve been doing, anyway…. The result has been amazing. Together, we will win.  God bless Nigeria,” Lauretta Onochie said.