Tinubu won 2023 election despite facing spiritual threats – Akande

The pioneer National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bisi Akande has said there were serious political manoeuvring and spiritual threats to stop the inauguration of the former Lagos State Governor as President on May 29, 2023.

Speaking at a one-day public lecture organised by the Arewa think tank in Kaduna State to commemorate the first anniversary of President Tinubu’s administration, Akande said the tension generated in the country by some powerful forces and the opposition aimed at denying Tinubu presidential victory in the 2023 presidential election were not surprising.

Akande who doubled as the chairman of the event, expressed concerns that Nigeria’s polity since 1953 has always been characterised by tensions and threats during every transtion period, noting that such must not be allowed to continue as one united country.

“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!

“Thereafter, spiritual threats and political maneuvering began that he would not be inaugurated as a Nigerian president, he assumed the presidency! The battle then shifted to the judicial sword-crossing that he should be removed from the presidency, his presidency was upheld! Other predictions were that he would have no health to manage the office, but 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 for 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 realised,” he said.

On his part, the host governor, Senator Uba Sani underscored the importance of unity of all citizens, noting that the country is moving on the part of economic prosperity and recovery under the Tinubu administration despite the current hardship.

Dignitaries present at the Arewa house, the venue of the meeting included the Governor of Benue State, Hyacinth Alia, the host governor, Senator Uba Sani, Akande among others.