National Leader of All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has deflated his death rumours as he returned to the country on Tuesday evening.
Rumours had claimed that Tinubu died on his medical trip abroad but the astute politician returned home very agile.
The former Lagos State governor has reportedly travelled to France for medical care over an ailment associated with old age.
Tinubu was conspicuously absent when President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge last Thursday.
Tinubu, has recently enjoined Nigerians to promote unity. He spoke in a congratulatory message to the nation last Friday in commemoration of the Democracy Day celebration.
According to him, democratic good governance holds the solutions to Nigeria’s challenges advising that Nigerians should stand against whatever will hinder democracy, especially those engaging in insurrection and violence.
He had said, “Democratic good governance offers the only reasonable solution to the challenges confronting Nigeria. Thus, we must stand for democracy today. We must stand for it, even more, tomorrow.
“We contend against those who would render the people ignorant and poor. We celebrate Democracy Day not only because we have come far, but to help give us the social fuel and encouragement to continue onward, because we have farther to go and even greater things to achieve as one nation and one people.”
The APC leader added that Nigerians should remember MKO Abiola, adding that his victory in the June 12, 1993 presidential election was “stolen.”
He noted that without Abiola’s historic efforts and sacrifices, June 12 would not have been declared the nation’s Democracy Day.
Tinubu further said, “Abiola remained steadfast and surrendered his own life so that we all might enjoy the democratic victory that was taken from him.
“We best honour these people not by reciting their names, but by injecting the spirit and hope of democracy into our words and deeds.
“In becoming better democrats, we also become better at being Nigerians.”