The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, and the leader of the Pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, have enjoined Nigerians to accept the outcome of the February 25, 2023, presidential election.
The Sultan, while speaking at the coronation and presenting of staff of office to the new Emir of Dutse, Jigawa State, Hameem Nuhu Sanusi, on Saturday, said: “Leadership is from Allah Almighty given to whoever He wishes at any time He wishes and nobody can query Him or change what He did.
“Please support your leaders; do not argue with them or be disobedient. You can’t fight God’s making; accept them as they were being made by God Almighty who gives power to whoever He wishes.”
Speaking on the presidential election, the Sultan said: “God Almighty did what He wished. We should consider it an act of God. He made the winners and nobody can stop or change what God Almighty did.”
The chairman of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs equally enjoined leaders to do justice and be fair to their followers.
Abubakar also urged politicians to encourage peace and stability in the country.
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“You should not encourage any act that could disrupt peace,” he added.
On his part, Fasoranti urged Nigerians and foreigners who wish the country well to steer clear of anything capable of endangering the peace of the nation.
“We should all 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,” the Afenifere leader said.
Fasoranti also enjoined Nigerians to allow the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to “settle down immediately to tackle the enormous Nigerian project of tackling insecurity, solving our economic downturn, restructuring the country, and rebuilding a nation never so badly divided on ethnic, religious and corrupt lines.”
He equally advised Tinubu to avoid making mistakes made by his predecessors by ensuring that every ethnic group is united in his administration.
The Afenifere leader, who expressed confidence in Tinubu’s ability to tackle the challenges bedevilling Nigeria, charged the President-elect to prove him right.
“I did marvel at your doggedness, self-determination, self-assuredness, strong belief in self, ability to overcome daunting and ever-surging challenges.
“I was also amazed at God’s grace on you that gave you the strength of character and such abundance of energy, that enabled you to navigate through all the ever emerging intricate problems, and made it possible for you to, against the wishes of some people, traverse successfully all the states of the federation, during the energy-sapping marathon presidential campaigns. I am, indeed, glad to know that your hard-earned victory had a very good national spread.
“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. 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,” Fasoranti said.
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