MAIDUGURI—Governor
Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday, said the state owed its political
freedom and independence to, among others, the wisdom and sincerity of All
Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader and former Governor of Lagos State,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Gov Kashim Shettima of Borno State.
Explaining
why his administration named an estate after Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the
governor said it was to appreciate him for freeing the state’s APC from
‘tyrants’ who made frantic efforts to hijack the party’s machinery ahead of the
2015 governorship, national and state Assembly elections in Borno State, but
was resisted by forces led by Tinubu in favour of the governor and majority of
his associates.
The governor’s explanation followed Asiwaju
Tinubu’s two-day visit to the state on Monday through yesterday, where he commissioned
432 houses, 13 primary and junior secondary schools and a fully-furnished
estate with 26 apartments in five sets of three-storey buildings for medical
doctors, named Bola Tinubu Court.
According
to him, “for us in Borno State APC, I must confess that we owe our political
freedom and independence to not only our firmness, but importantly, to the
wisdom and sincerity of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Shettima
also paid tribute to Tinubu’s wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, saying “Mrs.
Tinubu’s humility, kindness, dutifulness and her Africaness all go to reveal
one thing and that is the character of the man she is married to.
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