Chief Adebisi Akande said there were threats to stop the inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president ahead of May 29, 2023.
Former National Chairman, APC, Chief Bisi Akande arriving with APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the Minister for Solid Minerals, Kayode Fayemi for the APC Caucus meeting at the State House Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The elder statesman said this was because the opposition had even before independence never wanted a united country, pointing out 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.”
“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 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 realised.One Year in Office: Tinubu'll take Nigeria to greatness - Sani, Alia, Bisi Akande
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