BEVERLY HILLS, March 07, (THEWILL) – The Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima says the state owes its political freedom and independence to the wisdom and sincerity of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
He explained that his administration named an estate after Tinubu as a means of appreciating the former Lagos governor for freeing Borno APC from ‘tyrants’ who made frantic efforts to hijack the party’s machinery ahead of the 2015 governorship, national and state Assembly elections.
Shettima pointed out that the ‘tyrants’ were resisted by forces led by Tinubu in favour of him (the governor) and majority of his associates.
The Governor spoke in the course of Tinubu’s two-day visit to Borno which ended on Tuesday, during which 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.
“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,” he said.
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,” said the Governor.
