Elderstatesman and First Republic politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai has appealed to Northerners to continue supporting the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
He also lauded Nigerians for their continued support and prayers for the success of President Tinubu’s administration.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday in Kano, Yakasai held that the steady progress and concrete achievements recorded by the administration were a vindication of the trust reposed in them by Nigerians.
“I was also made to understand that the cost of petrol at filling stations has been coming down. In some places, I was told that they now sell petrol for about ₦850 per litre instead of ₦1,150 in the recent past. This is good for the cost of transportation and movement of Nigerians from place to place,” he stated.
The elder statesman, who supported the Tinubu-for-President project in 2023, urged Northerners to rally around the present administration while insisting that the North was not left out in the scheme of things under the current leadership, contrary to views being held in some quarters.
The former Adviser to President Shehu Shagari and one-time National Publicity Secretary of the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) also insisted that the administration’s best was yet to come, as it had lined up many developmental and people-friendly policies and programmes for the benefit of Nigerians and the North.
He enjoined Nigerians, especially the political class, to continue to contribute their quota to good governance through informed criticism and well-placed political engagements, all of which, he added, would strengthen the nation’s fledgling democracy and enrich the democratic process.
Yakasai also used the occasion to extend his deepest condolences to the families of the late Chief Ayo Adebanjo and the late Chief Edwin Clark, as well as to the entire people of the South-West and South-South regions, over their irreplaceable losses.
He said that the passing of these two great and patriotic Nigerians, who happened to be his political associates and personal friends, was a big loss to all Nigerians while praying to Allah to forgive their sins and grant them eternal rest.
