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, president-elect, says he will hit the ground running from the moment he is sworn in officially as president of Nigeria.
In a statement on Wednesday, Tunde Rahman, aide to the president-elect, quoted his principal as making the remarks in a telephone conversation with Antony Blinken,Tinubu said he would work to deliver institutional reforms and development programmes to deepen the country’s democratic institutions and bring help to the poor and vulnerable.Advertisement
“During the talks that lasted about 20 minutes, President-elect Tinubu spoke about his long and eventful sojourn in America, recalling how he was granted asylum by the US when, due to his determined struggle for democracy in Nigeria, he was forced into exile by the late General Sani Abacha’s military junta,” the statement reads.
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