Our correspondent, on Tuesday, spoke with some residents and stakeholders in Awka, the Anambra State capital.
The Anambra State chairman of APC, Mr Basil Ejidike, described Tinubu’s presidency as a true reflection of the February 25, 2023, presidential election.
He assured the public that Tinubu’s administration will carry out inclusive transformational leadership and urged every Nigerian to be positive and pray for God’s blessings in all sectors of the economy.
A former Chief of Protocol and Deputy Chief of Staff to the immediate past Anambra governor, Chief Uzuegbuna Okagbue, congratulated Tinubu and described him as a transformational leader.
Okagbue, who was a senatorial aspirant for Anambra Central Senatorial District, said Tinubu will also go on to provide unrivalled delivery of good governance to the people of Nigeria.
He reemphasised his confidence in Tinubu’s presidency project and urged all Nigerians to accept the new president as God’s will for the country.
A legal luminary, Chief Chris Elumunoh, said that he was not bothered about the swearing-in ceremony of Tinubu as the 16th President of Nigeria.
Elumunoh said that constitutionally since the Nigerian electoral umpire declared Tinubu, the winner of the February presidential election, it means he will be inaugurated as there must not be a vacuum.
“There are litigations going on in regard to the declaration by electoral umpire of the country, until those litigations are vacated then we can say the 16th President is Tinubu.
“I am not interested in the swearing-in ceremony, it is a merely required ceremony to close a gap. The judiciary pronouncement is my concern.
“I am not saying that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi must be the president nor the People’s Democratic Party candidate, Abubakar Atiku but let the evidence in the pronouncement of who won the presidential elections be shown to us.
“No Nigeria past president has been sworn in without having 25 per cent votes of the FCT, so I want to see the magic of the declaration and swearing in of Tinubu that upturned the constitutional provisions,” Elumunoh added.
Another respondent, Mr Christian Beluchukwu said that he reserves his comments till the judiciary disposes the presidential elections petitions before their table.
Beluchukwu said that as a voter, he knows who he voted for and the majority of Nigerian youths voted for, “we await to see if the judiciary is still the last hope of the common man.”
