 As part of measures to have a smooth right in the forthcoming presidential primary election of the All Progressive Congress, the APC, former Lagos State Governor and National Leader Bola Tinubu has stepped up efforts to seek the support of lawmakers ahead of the exercise. Plus, TV News correspondent Love Ikukoedoku was there in our reports. It is our meeting of current and past speakers, as well as deputies of the 30th House of Assembly on the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC, with its national leader, Achiwaju Bola Tinubu. The meeting was a strategic one ahead of the party presidential primary election coming up in May 2023. Addressing the lawmakers, Tinubu urged them to build a united and progressive country and also shared notes on how to improve the nation's democracy. He said the invitation of these critical stakeholders of the APC was to seek their cooperation in a drive to actualize his dream of flying the party's flag come next year, I suppose. I say I'm not qualified. I say I cannot do it again and again. I have to do attitude and I am competent. Let's use that leadership quality, vision, mission and determination. The legal state governor, Babajide Sawonu, on his part strongly holds that the APC leader certainly needs the collaborative effort of the legislators to achieve his goal. He urged them to work together to ensure that Nigeria gets a leader with capacity, exposure and audacity like Bola Tinubu. You are the real food soldiers. You are the ones that can go to your hallowed chamber and pass on this message to all of your House of Assembly members, to all of your former colleagues in the House of Assembly, in our various House of Assembly, to say to them that yes, the man that we're looking for too had called all of us into the room as identified the importance that you, in the Conference of Speakers, the House of Assembly members, what you mean to him. Speaker of the legal state House of Assembly, Mother Shiru Obasa, wasn't different in his submission. He said giving the national leader of the APC the chance to lead a country wouldn't show an even distribution of the dividends of democracy to Nigerians. I think it's all about our interest, the kind of interest that we strongly believe that we serve the people of Nigeria, which we believe can take us to that herdorado we have been talking about. The event which was hosted by the Speaker of the Legal State House of Assembly, Mother Shiru Obasa, at Ikeja was tagged with respecting the democracy journey in Nigeria. From Legas, live Ikuku Uiedukon. Last TV news. We're talking about fresh news updates.