A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Sunday Sylvester Moniedafe, has described the recent telephone conversation between US secretary of state, Antony Blinken and president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as an auspicious diplomatic step toward strengthening relations between the two countries.
In an exclusive interview with journalists in Abuja, Chief Moniedafe (PhD in waiting), who is fondly referred to by friends and associates as SSM, said the needless uproar the call generated especially from the opposition camps, “beats my imagination, because our country has countless and limitless opportunities that will come our way as a nation, from the bastion of democracy.”
Chief Moniedafe enjoined those who are “creating a mountain out of a molehill” to understand that the telephone conversation, which was initiated by the US diplomat, “was open and frank, and our ingenious president-elect, the Jagaban, seized the felicitous moment to reiterate his resolve which is aimed at prioritising institutional reforms and development programs, deepening our democratic institutions and bringing succour to poor and vulnerable Nigerians”.
Chief Moniedafe, who holds the traditional title of Jagaban Jimeta in Adamawa state, and frontline contender to the office of national chairman of the ruling APC before it was zoned to North-central, noted that “Asiwaju was in his element when he concurred with the US diplomat that without national unity, national security, economic development and good governance, Nigeria would not be a better place to visit, live in, and do business, as well as continue to play her leading role in the comity of African nations.”
He was emphatic that the Asiwaju he has come to know in the political firmament of Africa’s largest democracy and the world’s most populous black nation, “will hit the ground running and Nigerians will have a better deal sooner than later, because he is a pragmatic democrat with demonstrable antecedent.”
