I’m A Die-Hard Democrat – Tinubu

Bola Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu has branded himself a die-hard democrat. He recently had his say while speaking at an interfaith breakfast hosted for All Progressives Congress, APC, executives, National Working Committee, NWC, members, and the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, at the State House.

Highlighting his decades-long democratic credentials, he urged Nigerian politicians across party lines to embrace true democratic principles and submit to the rule of law, no matter the personal or political cost.

Tinubu added that the principles and philosophy of democracy will live and die with him.

His words, “We are all democrats and we all subscribed to this democracy voluntarily, willingly, and we’ve been at it selflessly in the last 26 years.

Some of us have the bruises from it, struggling for it. We went to detention, we protested. We went on exile and all of that. We formed NADECO. We got here.

I followed the leadership destiny that God has done and chosen for me, there’s no doubt about that. I’m a die-hard democrat, and I follow that belief wholeheartedly, committedly, to a united country, Nigeria. That principle and that philosophy will live and die with me.

We are all democrats, voluntarily, party alliances, party ideologies or no ideology, party boat, party platform, in whichever form, it’s voluntary. Be persecuted for it. So, no threat from any democrat.”

WOW.