Buhari: Tinubu a forthright, visionary leader

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday described the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a forthright and visionary leader.
The President in his congratulatory message to Tinubu, who celebrated his 64th birthday, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, noted that Tinubu’s rising political profile since he was elected a senator in 1992 was a testimony to his forthrightness, diligence and doggedness.
He said those were the qualities that had endeared the APC national leader to the electorate and given him all-round success as a private sector worker, a businessman and two-term governor of Lagos State.
Buhari assured Tinubu that his patriotism and commitment to democracy and good governance as well as his generous spirit would always be remembered and appreciated by generations of Nigerians.
As one of the pillars of the APC, President Buhari commended the visionary leadership style of the Asiwaju of Lagos who is also the Jagaban of the Borgu Kingdom in Niger State for creating a formidable opposition party in Nigeria that worked vigorously within a short period to oust a party that had been in power for 16 years.