Bisi Akande, pioneer chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), says he is believes Nigeria will more peaceful prosperous 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 have been proved wrong.
He noted that since 1953, the nation’s polity has been moving from tension to another, threatening the corporate existence of Nigeria.
The former APC chairman, recalled that “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”.
Akande said, “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 predictions 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 Nigeria.
“May our collective and individual aspirations within a better and most respectable Nigeria be divinely realiised”, he said.
