4th March, 2023
Pa Reuben Fasoranti, leader of Afenifere, has advised the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to avoid the mistakes made by his predecessors in office.
Fasoranti, in a congratulatory letter to Tinubu, said he did marvel at his doggedness, self-determination, self-assuredness, strong belief in self, ability to overcome daunting and ever surging challenges.
He said he was also amazed at God’s grace on him that gave him the strength of character and such abundance of energy, that enabled him to navigate through all the ever emerging intricate problems, and made it possible for him to, against the wishes of some people, traversed successfully all the states of the federation, during the energy sapping marathon presidential campaigns.
Fasoranti added that he was, indeed, glad to know that Tinubu’s hard earned victory had a very good national spread.
He urged those who lost at the poll to go peaceful, take lawful means, and thread legitimate and legal paths to rectify anything that might have, from their own point of view, gone wrong, and let Tinubu and all concerned settle down immediately to tackle the enormous Nigerian project of tackling insecurity, solving economic downturn, restructuring the country, and rebuilding a nation never so badly divided on ethnic, religious and corrupt lines.
“You now have the opportunity. Now is the time for you to prove me right. I pray to God to be with you. In going about this, avoid the mistakes of some of your forebears. Be fair to all concerned. Go ahead to unite the country, see and treat the country as one. Be a federalist,” he said.
Fasoranti appealed to Tinubu to allow the big ethnic groups to exist and respect one another, but also allow the small ones to feel proud and wanted in the spirit of federalism as practised in the United States.