Pioneer National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Adebisi Akande has said there was spiritual threats to stop President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of enjoying his Presidential victory of 2023 presidential election.
Akande maintained that threats from within,opposition parties ,some clerics was glaring to stop President Tinubu of from assuming office.
However ,he said those of them in Tinubu’s camp were not surprised of their antics, saying we knew it would happened.
The former Governor of Osun state said this was what was obtained over the years, saying, ” for instance before independence, some politicians never wanted a united country,
“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”.
Speaking as Chairman of a One-Day Lecture organized by Arewa Think Tank to celebrate the one year achievements of the administration of President Tinubu at Arewa House,Kaduna on Thursday, the Elderstatesman further added, “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 maneuvering 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! Other 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 was the pioneer national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) – the great political party that produced the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose one year administrative anniversary was being officially celebrated since over a week up to yesterday”.
“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.
“I urge all of us to be thinking about how to sustain a united, peaceful and prosperous Nigeria. May our collective and individual aspirations within a better and most respectable Nigeria be divinely realized.
The theme of the lecture was, “Our Diversity, Our Strength”, which was delivered by the Guest Speaker, governor of Benue State, Rev. Father Hyacinth Alia.
Rev. Father Alia, stressed the need for Nigeria unity, saying that, “our religions should not be a dividing factor to us.”
He added that Nigeria as country must not fail as its failure would negatively affect the entire Africa, as a continent.
“We should not take our diversity for granted, our diversity should be our power, strength and unifying force that hold us together as one people.
“Diversity should not be a source of conflicts and tension, it should rather build more robust and prosperous Nigeria. If Nigeria fails as a nation, the entire countries in Africa will fail.
“Tinubu has brought hope of unity irrespective of our differences in religion, ethnicity and social status, and he stepped up progress or otherwise on infrastructure, education, health, agriculture and every possible parameter of social engineering”. Governor Alia said.
On his part, the Chief Host and governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani, also harped on unity of Nigerians, saying that with unity of purpose, Nigeria and Nigerians would achieve the desired peace and progress.
He added that it was only when Nigerians come together as one that “there will be peace.”
He continued that President Bola Tinubu meant well for the country despite the current hardship occasioned by the removal of subsidy on oil and other policies of the current administration.
Going down memory lane, the governor said President Tinubu was one of those that fought for the enthronement of the current democracy.
He said the president was one of the financiers of pro-democracy movement at the period Nigerians wanted the military to leave for democracy to thrive.
Sani, therefore, urged Nigerians to support the President despite the hardship because he (Tinubu) holds Nigerians and Nigeria high.
Earlier, in his opening remarks, the Chief Convener Arewa Think Tank, Muhammad Alhail Yakubu informed that, “The objective of the event is aimed at strengthening and encouraging the ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’ of President Bola Tinubu which has several laudable brilliant layers linked to foreign investment drive, energizing the health sector, making education affordable for the poor and underserved, delivering good governance amidst debt burden, social and economic transformation, driving peace and religious harmony, as well as measures to combat rural banditry and insecurity across the country.
“The one-year stewardship of President Tinubu has recorded remarkable and impressive achievements in many aspects of governance considering the level of mismanagement and unfavorable security situation he inherited from the previous administration.
“As such, it behoves on all patriotic citizens to support him, especially ‘his cabinet ministers and appointees to achieve greater successes necessary to propel the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability in governance and development that will ensure peace, progress, and unity of the country”.
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