Tinubu to Atiku, Obi: Election is over, work with me for Nigeria’s sake

President Bola Tinubu has called on his challengers in the 2023 presidential election, including the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) to work with his administration.

Tinubu called on Atiku and Obi to work with him for the peace, progress, and stability of Nigeria, saying the election is over.

The president made the call in his New Year’s Day message to Nigerians on Monday, January 1, 2024.

He said: “For the new year to yield all its good benefits to us as individuals and collectively as a people we must be prepared to play our part. The job of building a prosperous nation is not the job of the President, Governors, Ministers, Lawmakers and government officials alone.

“Our destinies are connected as members of this household of Nigeria. Our language, creed, ethnicity, and religious beliefs even when they are not same should never make us work at cross purposes.

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“In this new year, let us resolve that as joint-heirs to the Nigerian Commonwealth, we will work for the peace, progress, and stability of our country. I extend this call to my political opponents in the last election. Election is over. It’s time for all of us to work together for the sake of our country.

“We must let the light each of us carries – men and women, young and old- shine bright and brighter to illuminate our path to a glorious dawn.”

Other power installation projects to strengthen the reliability of our transmission lines and optimise the integrity of our National grid are ongoing across the country.

Tinubu added: “My administration recognises that no meaningful economic transformation can happen without steady electricity supply. In 2024, we are moving a step further in our quest to restart local refining of petroleum products with Port Harcourt Refinery, and the Dangote Refinery which shall fully come on stream.

“To ensure constant food supply, security and affordability, we will step up our plan to cultivate 500,000 hectares of farmlands across the country to grow maize, rice, wheat, millet and other staple crops. We launched the dry season farming with 120,000 hectares of land in Jigawa State last November under our National Wheat Development Programme.”

The Star