President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians to embrace national unity and transform the country’s diversity into prosperity during his first visit to Anambra State since taking office.
“We will continue to be brothers, we are one family, a single family, diverse, living in the same house called Nigeria,” Tinubu told crowds at Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka on Thursday. “We are only staying in different rooms. Our diversity must lead to prosperity, we must work together.”
Wearing traditional red Igbo Akwete attire, the President inaugurated several projects, including the new Anambra State Government House and the Emeka Anyaoku Institute for International Studies and Diplomacy.
Anambra’s traditional rulers honoured Tinubu with the title “Dike si Mba” (Hero from Another Land). The President jokingly requested a plot of land for his retirement, calling himself “a son of the soil.”
Governor Chukwuma Soludo pledged his support for Tinubu’s administration despite belonging to different political parties, noting that his All Progressives Grand Alliance has maintained a policy of working with the central government since 2011.
“In 2011, before I joined APGA in 2013, APGA took an official position to support and work with the political party and government at the centre,” Soludo said. “Indeed, in that year, APGA adopted the sitting president then as its presidential candidate, and I want to report that policy by APGA has not changed.”
