Former President of the Senate, Anyim Pius Anyim has given details of the reason for his visit to President Bill Tinubu on Wednesday. NPO Reported on Wednesday that both Anyim and former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party Olisa Metuh, had visited Tibubu.
Details of their mission at the time were not available.
But Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Anyim said he was at the villa to encourage the President on the successes he has so far recorded.
“It was a great honour to pay courtesy to the President and congratulate him, first and foremost, for his successful inauguration as the 16th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and also to encourage and congratulate him for the bold he has taken so far.
“We had a whole lot of heart-to-heart discussions, but primarily, it’s to congratulate him,” Anyim said.
Also speaking, the former PDP spokesman, Metuh, said although the country had bled for the past eight years, he is confident that the Tinubu administration will achieve national unity.
He said “We came to see the President, to commend him for his very good takeoff; the policies he has brought, his inclusiveness, and most of all to canvass for the idea of participatory governance, participatory democracy.
“We believe that for policies and programmes, there has to be options and alternatives for those programmes, but only when we are together can we achieve success.
“Our nation has bled for over eight years, but we believe that from now onwards, Mr President has shown the way that the country will come together and then we’ll be able to live happily.”