The South West Agenda for Asiwaju, a support group for the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has said that his victory in Saturday’s election is like the final destination of a political journey which began over four decade’s ago.
SWAGA National Chairman, Dayo Adeyeye and National Secretary, Bosun Oladele, assured Nigerians that “the president-elect will promote national unity, arrest insecurity, accelerate economic prosperity and give renewed hope to Nigerians especially our teeming youth population.”
Adeyeye and Oladele, in a statement titled, ‘SWAGA congratulates Tinubu, assures he will be the best president ever’, made available on Friday, expressed confidence that the APC presidential candidate’s performance would exceed expectation
The statement read, “Tinubu will not lower the standard of good governance and delivery of democratic dividends, a trend synonymous with him throughout his eight years as governor of Lagos State between 1999 to 2007.”
SWAGA, while thanking Nigerians from various walks of life, political, cultural and religious for voting massively for Tinubu, urged them “to join hands with the incoming President in taking our beloved country to the promised land and a country we can proudly hand over to the next generation of Nigerians.”
The group, which congratulated Tinubu for the “well-deserved victory” said, “To us in SWAGA, the victory is likened to the final destination of a political journey which began over four decades ago, though laced with struggles and thorns unknown to many Nigerians.
“The victory had its genesis in Asiwaju’s days in the trenches where he fought with like minds through the instrumentality of National Democratic Coalition formed in 1994, Afenifere and other platforms to challenge the military junta which annulled the June 12, 1993 election of late Chief MKO Abiola and enthroned democratic rule in Nigeria.”
SWAGA described Tinubu as “a man of uncommon courage and tenacity,” saying he never looked back in his struggle to sustain and uphold democracy across the length and breath of the country.
Adeyeye and Oladele lauded all SWAGA members and supporters in the country “for their dedication and steadfastness in the arduous journey of the last three years. We did not work in vain. It paid off. Glory be to God almighty. Our work is, however, not finished. We must be prepared to continue our support for the incoming President with greater vigour and dedication.”
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