According to former African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate Dumebi Kachikwu, President Bola Tinubu should resist the urge to fill his administration with political allies and instead seek out capable Nigerians, regardless of party, religious, or tribal affiliations, to form a government that can provide the people of Nigeria with the urgently needed services.

President Tinubu's administration can only give meaning to Nigerians by rejecting political and other emotive temptations, according to Kachikwu, who advised in his Democracy Day message in Abuja yesterday.

He said:  “He must urgently set up a government with competent people and avoid the temptation of flooding the new administration with political associates.

”It is with a renewed sense of hope and optimism that many Nigerians received the Democracy Day broadcast from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Our nation is pregnant with hope, and we hope this won’t be another stillbirth.

“For too long the Nigerian people have endured. We have kept faith when promises made by successive governments didn’t materialise. We have been asked to be patient until we no longer know what it means to be patient.

“Today our president has once again asked us to be patient as cost of living rises astronomically occasioned by the removal of petroleum subsidy. On a day when we should celebrate the essence of democracy, we don’t have much to celebrate.”

“Our new president is already taking baby steps unlike President Buhari who crawled throughout his 8 years in office. Nigerians are all in agreement that we want a president who sees his time in office as a 100-metre sprint.

“We all yearn for the hope promised us by the man M.K.O Abiola three decades ago. His message resonated with most Nigerians and as such, Nigerians from all walks of life trooped out to vote for him in an election adjudged to be free and fair. 

”Desperate men didn’t allow him to take the oath of office but in our hearts and minds, he remains the president we know.