Former Southern and Northern legislators have endorsed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second time period in workplace come 2027.
They acknowledged that it’s the flip of the South to finish its tenure, thereby adopting President Tinubu as the only real candidate of the South.
The ex-legislators made the choice on the 2025 Southern Summit of Former Legislators organized by the Nationwide Discussion board of Former Legislators, held on Saturday on the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The summit, themed Nationwide Unity: Bedrock of Nation Constructing, had in attendance the Chief of Employees to President Bola Tinubu and former Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Olufemi Gbajabiamila, former Senate President Ken Nnamani, Yakubu Dogara, a former Home of Representatives Speaker, former Speaker Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, Nationwide Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ajibola Bashiru, former Senate Chief Victor Ndoma Egba, amongst others.
In accordance with the communique issued on the finish of the summit, the choice to endorse President Bola Tinubu was crucial within the curiosity of unity, justice, and equity.
The communique, learn by Samson Osagie, former Home of Representatives member from Edo State, was adopted after the Chairman, Senator Ken Nnamani, put the query to the members.
It reads, “As a physique, we’ll at all times align ourselves to these issues that may promote the unity, peace, and prosperity of our pricey nation Nigeria. We commend the patriotic braveness of our colleagues of the Northern Caucus in calling for the South to finish their tenure of the management of the nation.
“We affirm that it’s flip of the South to finish its tenure. We posit that it’s in one of the best curiosity of the South and nation that the incumbent, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, completes the tenure of the South.
“Accordingly, we undertake him because the Sole Candidate of the South. We name on the South to assist the North in 2031 to take up their tenure for the management of our pricey nation.”
In his remarks, the convener of the summit, Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Employees to the President, acknowledged that Tinubu had made it clear from day one which his administration wouldn’t draw back from tackling essentially the most tough reforms.
He described President Bola Tinubu’s removing of gasoline subsidy as an act of “extraordinary statesmanship,” not that of a politician interested by the subsequent election, however a daring transfer within the curiosity of Nigeria’s long-term stability.
“Absolutely the readability of the President’s imaginative and prescient is the explanation this administration has set out from day one to deal with essentially the most tough reforms. In the present day, the Federal Authorities of Nigeria is now not paying inflated subsidy claims that profit solely a tiny minority of our residents.
“These aren’t the actions of a politician interested by the subsequent election. They’re acts of extraordinary statesmanship by a pacesetter whose highest concern is the fortune of the Nigerian folks and the destiny of the subsequent technology,” he mentioned.
Whereas acknowledging that the reforms include non permanent hardship, Gbajabiamila urged Nigerians to be affected person.
The Northern Caucus of the discussion board, led by Rufai Chanchagi, reiterated its resolve to again the South within the subsequent election, insisting that the area must be allowed to finish eight years within the presidency within the spirit of equity and fairness.
In his remarks, the Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, described members of the discussion board as true custodians of the nation’s democratic journey, declaring that the South and President Tinubu have to be allowed to finish two phrases within the presidency.
Equally, Senator Surajudeen Basiru, the Senate Spokesperson and Senator representing Osun Central, ninth Meeting, asserted that within the face of social, political, and financial challenges confronting the nation, nothing was higher than guaranteeing that range turns into a supply of power moderately than a wedge of division.
