Nigeria Will Be More Peaceful, More Developed Under Tinubu, Says Akande
Pioneer National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, expressed optimism that Nigeria would be more peaceful and more developed under President Bola Tinubu.
Akande spoke on Thursday in Kaduna while chairing a lecture organised by the Arewa Think Tank to celebrate the achievements of the Tinubu administration since he came into office.
He said those who created tension in the country with their negative predictions about Tinubu and Nigeria before and after the 2023 elections had been proved wrong.
Akande said since 1953, the polity had been moving from one tension to another, threatening the corporate existence of Nigeria.
The former APC chairman recalled, "Since 1953, when a motion for independence was first moved in parliament by Chief Tony Enahoro, our polity has been moving from tensions of one threat to another that Nigeria must not be allowed to continue as one and united country."
He stated, "Towards the last elections, the prophecy was thick that Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not become the APC candidate, he did become!
"Religious clerics of one belief and the other became sleepless for him not to win the presidential elections, he won!
"Spiritual threats and political manoeuvring began thereafter that he would not be inaugurated as a Nigerian president, he assumed the presidency!
"The battle shifted to the judicial sword-crossing that he should be removed from the presidency, his presidency became upheld!
"Another prediction was that he would have no health to manage the office, he remained divinely healthy!
"Then, the agitation that Nigeria would not survive his political agenda, Nigeria has been waxing stronger and stronger as one and united country!
"One Nigeria is a major part of what we are now celebrating.
"I am, therefore, particularly convinced that Nigeria will forever continue to be sustained as a more peaceful, more developed, more progressive and a more prosperous country under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and beyond."
Akande urged Nigerians to work towards sustaining a united, peaceful and prosperous country.
"May our collective and individual aspirations within a better and most respectable Nigeria be divinely realised," he said.
Guest lecturer at the occasion and governor of Benue State, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, said Tinubu was doing his best to unite and develop the country.
Alia said in the past one year the president had made progress in infrastructure, education, health, agriculture and other parameter of social engineering.
The governor said Nigeria's diversity should be a source of unity and strength for the country.
"Diversity should not be a source of conflicts and tension, it should rather build more robust and prosperous Nigeria," the governor said.
Earlier, in his opening remarks, Convener, Arewa Think Tank, Muhammad Yakubu, said the event was aimed at strengthening and encouraging the “Renewed Hope Agenda” of Tinubu which, according to him, had impacted positively in the past one year.