A former governor of Osun state, Bisi Akande says President Bola Tinubu battled spiritual forces just before he was inaugurated in May 2023.
President Tinubu marked his one year in office on Wednesday.
While speaking at a one-day lecture organised by an Arewa Think in Kaduna on Thursday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain said it was not surprising that the opposition tried to reject the victory of Tinubu at the polls.
Akande further said Nigeria would be more developed under the Tinubu administration.
“The tension and threats generated in the country by the opposition with the view to deny Tinubu the presidential victory in the presidential election were not surprising,” he said.
“Towards the last elections, the prophecy was thick that Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not become the APC candidate, but 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 manoeuvring 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, but 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 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.”
Conclusively, Akande mentioned that Nigerians should think about how to uphold a united and peaceful Nigeria.