It is no news that Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been absent from major gatherings, where Nigeria’s 2023 presidential aspirants have been invited to address Nigerians, while Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar have attended.  Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP, Ifeanyi Okowa represented ex-Vice President Atiku at the ICAN conference.  Tinubu however have never attended any such gatherings, he had been sending his vice presidential hopeful Kashim Shettima to represent him, but he was also not present this time around.

Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore did not miss out on the opportunity to call out Bola Ahmed Tinubu, “I also want to congratulate those of you who made a bet today, that one candidate would not show up, congratulation you won, and the candidate that did not show up, please listen to this, is supposed to be an accounting guru from the Chicago State University, but he refuses to show up at the most important accounting event in Nigeria today”.