The President -elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has disclosed that he will hit the ground running from the moment he is sworn in officially as president of Nigeria on May 29.
Tinubu also spoke on the asylum granted to him by the United States, following the manhunt against him and other NADECO members by the former Head of State, the late Gen Sani Abacha.
Spokesman to the President-elect, Mr Tunde Rahman, stated this in statement made available to TheIdeal News on Wednesday. Rahman also quoted Tinubu as making the remarks in a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on Tuesday evening.
He added that Tinubu said he would work to deliver institutional reforms and development programmes to deepen the country’s democratic institutions and bring help to the poor and vulnerable.
Regarding the issue going on exile to the US during the regime of the late Abacha.
The statement reads in part, “During the talks that lasted about 20 minutes, President-elect Tinubu spoke about his long and eventful sojourn in America, recalling how he was granted asylum by the US when, due to his determined struggle for democracy in Nigeria, he was forced into exile by the late General Sani Abacha’s military junta.”
Tinubu also said the results of the just concluded elections reflected the will of the Nigerian people.
On his part, Blinken said without national unity, security, economic development and good governance, Nigeria would not become a better place to live in or play its role in the comity of African nations.
The US Secretary of State also said his country would play its part in bringing a sustained and cordial relationship between the two nations to fruition, adding that a democratic and peaceful Nigeria is important to the US as it is to Africa.
