By Shile GIWA
The All Progressives Congress(APC) in Osun has congratulated Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of the party, on his 67th birthday.
The party said in a statement issued on Thursday in Osogbo by its spokesman, Mr Kunle Oyatomi , that “ what makes this moment worthy of celebration is the quality of the series of achievements that the Jagaban of Borgu has made in less than four decades from a local hero to a huge national figure.”
“One of Asiwaju Tinubu’s greatest achievements is his contribution to the political engineering that brought the APC into being and led it to a historic victory in 2015.
” As if that was not historic enough, Asiwaju led the new party to a second term victory in the just concluded elections.
“ These events were first of its kind in the history of Nigerian politics and one that will occupy the special attention of historians,” the statement said.
The party praised Tinubu for what it described as his “unique generosity, ’’saying this had changed the lives of “hundreds of thousands of people.’’
“These people (that spread across party lines and nationalities) will never forget Bola Ahmed Tinubu in a hurry.
“They will be amongst the millions of Nigerians who will be praying today to Allah that He grants the APC leader long life and prosperity for the good of Nigeria,’’ it said.====NAN
