This was made public in a statement on Thursday by the president’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
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He said Rasaq, who died on Saturday at 74 after a brief illness, was a grassroots politician, party loyalist and believer in the progressive cause.
Speaking at the 10th Bola Ahmed Tinubu Colloquium, organised to commemorate the former Lagos State Governor’s birthday, Buhari described Tinubu as a political patriot who has over the years invested in building people and creating future leaders.
“Those who have not emerged this time also deserve commendation for their courage to step forward and contest. We believe their time would also come. This is the time to rally round the candidates to ensure overwhelming victory for the APC at the election. The conclusion of the exercise is a victory for APC. It’s our collective triumph.”
I also congratulate and thank President Muhammadu Buhari for his steadfastness and dogged effort in ensuring the release of these girls. I salute our gallant men and women in uniform who continue to make sacrifices on our behalf and have remained focused in the hot pursuit of the terrorists
Tinubu, in a statement on Wednesday on why he withdrew from consideration for the APC vice presidential position, said it was in the interest of the country
Tinubu, who pleaded with all the parties to the crisis to sheathe their swords, spoke at a meeting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital
Let me start by attempting to paint a realistic picture of the state of our nation today. It is a picture we all are familiar with but which we have done little to confront and demand that things change
Tinubu made the statement while speaking with political correspondents on the defection of Malam Ibrahim Shekarau and Attahiru Bafarawa from APC to the Peoples Democratic Party
The advent of a new year is time for people and nations to resolve themselves to a greater future. As a people, let us resolve no longer to live in a land that functions as its inferior self. Let us resolve that we no longer dwell in a society of unfair advantage, excessive poverty and parochial divisions that threaten to distract us from the common goal of our common good