Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has affirmed that the state owes its political freedom and independence to the sincerity of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Shetimma explained that the reason he named an estate after Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was to appreciate him for freeing the state’s APC from ‘tyrants’, who according to him, made frantic efforts to hijack the party’s machinery ahead of the 2015 governorship, national and state Assembly elections in Borno State.
He said Tinubu’s resistance led to the freedom of the state.
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.
“There are exceptions, but generally speaking, most women try to borrow the characters of their husbands; they relate with others based on how their husbands relate.”
Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor was on a two-day visit to the state where he commissioned 432 houses, 13 primary and junior secondary schools and a fully-furnished estate for medical doctors, named Bola Tinubu Court.
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