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Former APC Chairman Bisi Akande claims President Tinubu battled spiritual forces and prophecies before his inauguration, overcoming opposition and challenges through divine intervention.

Former Osun State Governor Bisi Akande has claimed that President Bola Tinubu faced a battle against "spiritual forces" before his inauguration in May 2023. The revelation was made during a one-day lecture organized by an Arewa Think Tank in Kaduna on Thursday, as Nigeria celebrated Tinubu's first year in office.

Akande, who served as the interim national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party that produced Tinubu as its presidential candidate, expressed that the opposition's attempts to deny Tinubu victory at the polls were not surprising. However, he asserted that Tinubu's journey to the presidency was fraught with spiritual challenges and prophecies that he would not succeed.

"Towards the last elections, the prophecy was thick that Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not become the APC candidate, but he did become," Akande stated. "Religious clerics of one belief and the other became sleepless for him not to win the presidential elections, he won!"

According to Akande, the spiritual battles did not cease even after Tinubu's electoral victory. "Thereafter, spiritual threats and political maneuvering began that he would not be inaugurated as a Nigerian president, he assumed the presidency," he claimed.

Akande further alleged that the opposition's efforts to undermine Tinubu's presidency continued, with predictions of his removal from office and concerns about his health being raised. However, he declared that Tinubu's presidency has been upheld, and he remains "divinely healthy."

The former APC chairman expressed his conviction that Nigeria will continue to prosper and develop under Tinubu's leadership. "I am therefore particularly convinced that Nigeria will forever continue to be sustained as a more peaceful, more developed, more progressive, and a more prosperous country under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and beyond," he said.

Akande's claims have reignited discussions about the role of spiritual beliefs and traditional practices in Nigerian politics, particularly at the highest levels of power.