George Akume, Secretary to the government of the federation over the weekend, said that a second term for President Bola Tinubu which he said was now a done deal. He said emphatically that there’s no vacancy in the Presidential Villa until 2031.
The federation’s scribe assertion was in obvious reaction to the alleged presidential aspirations of Atiku Abubakar and others from Northern Nigeria who he asked to wait for their time from 2031.
Akume made this assertion on a TVC programme over the weekend in which he advised Atiku and others with an eye on the 2027 presidential election to shift their dreams to 2031.
“President Tinubu as a southerner, should be allowed to have a second term, meaning that those eyeing the Presidency from the North in 2027, should look beyond that year by waiting till 2031.
”If it is the will of God for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to be President of Nigeria, even at the age of 90 years, he can get it, but he and other Northerners, eyeing the office now, should look beyond 2027.”
Akume also spoke on the controversial tax reform bills highlighting the president’s good intentions in the process. “President Tinubu through the reform bills, wants to reposition the Nation’s economy as he earlier did with the removal of fuel subsidy and harmonization of the foreign exchange windows in the country.
“It is very easy to destroy but difficult to build, the various reforms being rolled out, are meant to rebuild the destroyed Nigeria by previous administrations.
“Very soon, Nigerians will start seeing results from the reforms being carried out,” Akume further declared.
