By Halimah Olamide
The President of the Senate Senator Godswill Akpabio, has described as one that has come at a cost the victory of the President Bola Tinubu at the Supreme Court on Thursday.
However, Akpabio said the cost of the victory makes it sweeter.
Responding to the decision of the apex court which dismissed the appeals of Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of Labour Party as lacking merit, the senate president said the revalidation of his February 25, 2023 election victory by the Supreme Court was reflective of the will of the people.
Akpabio’s response was contained in a in a message to President Tinubu made available to the NPO Reports by his Special Adviser on Media, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh.
He said the decision unfastens the last bolts to the path for social-political engineering that President Tinubu promised the nation.
“Mr President, I am personally elated that the jurists of the Supreme Court saw through the arguments and even without much technicalities easily confirmed your victory in the poll.
“There is no doubt that victory came at a cost, but Mr President, that makes it even sweeter. I know you have in your years of public service yielded your personal and other comforts for the collective good and what it cost to confirm the victory in the courts should be seen with a similar vista.
Senator Akpabio also urged the president not to relent in being a father figure to his former rivals saying that it was superfluous to remind the president of his well-known big heart.
The Senate President also called on the major rivals of the President to sheath their swords of political combat and join hands with the Tinubu administration in the collective goal of making the nation great again.
“The elections have been announced by the electoral authorities and confirmed by the courts, and I call on all former political rivals of the president to show good faith by joining hands with the Bola Tinubu administration in its ongoing efforts to take the nation to a higher level.”
The Senate President on his part said that the National Assembly would continue to support the Bola Tinubu administration by leveraging its legislative tentacles to raise the level of governance to a higher pedestal.