According to Adegbite, Onaiyekan said he would not recognise Tinubu as President until the Supreme Court ruled on the 2023 presidential election petitions. He said, “In 2023, when President Tinubu was declared the winner, Cardinal Onaiyekan said he would not recognise Mr President until the Supreme Court gave its verdict. “But we said Nigerians had voted and we have a President, and until the decision is overturned by the Supreme Court, that’s when you can speak. But for him to say we don’t have a president, we told him at that time that we have a president.” Adegbite emphasised that some clerics who made predictions about the outcome of the 2023 presidential election were proved wrong.