Nigerians Will Thank God They Elected Tinubu – Senator Smart Adeyemi

Nigerians Will Thank God They Elected Tinubu – Senator Smart Adeyemi

The Chairman of Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Smart Adeyemi, amidst reactions said that Nigerians will thank God they elected Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President of this country.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had early hour of on Wednesday announced Tinubu as the winner and has also presented to him certificate of return.

Calling on Nigerians to support the government of Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima for the socio-economic development of the country, Adeyemi, who was addressing newsmen in Abuja, said that the Northern governors deserve award for the heroic role they played in the power shift by the ruling APC from the North to the South.

Adeyemi, who represents Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, said, “the country will thank God some day that they have elected Tinubu and Shettima because they will make Nigeria very prosperous.

“We have to commend Northern governors because no matter how good a building is you have to look at the foundation.

“Our candidate, incoming President and his vice came this far because the Northern governors came to a conclusion that the Presidency should be zoned from the North to the South.”

Urging Nigerians to thank the Northern governors, who came together and said “for the peace and unity and stability of Nigerian nation, power should be shifted to the South,” Adeyemi said that the decision of the governors help to produce the best candidate.

He further said that the decision “helped the emergence of the best candidate Nigeria has ever produced for presidential election – a man of good antecedent, a man know not to be sentimental, a man of great strength of character, intelligence, a man that is cerebral and highly mobile, a man with a great record of service to God and humanity.

“To me, the Northern governors deserve National Merit Award for what they have done. If the North had insisted on fielding a candidate, then only God knows what would happen to Nigeria. The governors we have today in the North, I see them as the new Sardauna, the premier of Northern region.

“When I speak about Sardauna, I speak against the background of his qualities, how he governed the diverse North and today we still have monuments of his achievements in every part cutting across ethnicity and tribe.

“What makes a good leader is to have a large heart and be considerate to other people. Today, the Northern governors have proved to the whole world that they are the new Sardauna of this generation.

“The only way to compensate them is for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to give all the Northern governors that came together and said power must move to the South National Merit Award.

“Whenever the history of this dispensation will be written, the role of Northern governors at that convention will be an integral part of it. It will be said the North in their wisdom came together and said let power shift to the South.”

Reacting to Tinubu’s emergence, however, the Spokesperson and Director Public Affairs, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Committee, Sen. Dino Melaye, said that the grave injustice shall not stand.

He added that the battle to retrieve their stolen mandate is a battle of no retreat, no surrender.

Melaye said: “A clarion call on all Atiku’s supporters all over the world not be perturbed. Weeping may tarry till night but joy cometh in the morning. This grave injustice shall not stand. The battle to retrieve our stolen mandate is a battle of no retreat, no surrender. We shall overcome.”