Politics Why We Named Maiduguri Estate After Tinubu – Shettima

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Governor Kashim Shettima on Tuesday said his administration named an estate in Maiduguri after Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a mark of honour for liberating the people of Borno State from the hands of a ‘tyrant’ who wanted to hijack the APC.

Shettima said the said tyrant wanted to take over the APC ahead of the 2015 governorship, national and state assembly elections but was resisted by forces led by Tinubu, in favour of the governor and majority of his associates.

The governor’s explanation came at the height of Tinubu’s two-day visit to Borno on Monday and 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.’

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Shettima recalled that he succeeded in taking control of the Borno APC in 2015 largely because Tinubu refused to support “the game plan of a wealthy tyrant” (whose name he didn’t mention) that fought hard to seize the Borno APC as his personal estate.

“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.

“I always tell people that yes, politics is a local affair; yes, we carried out the fight and deployed different strategies for our freedom but then, the truth of the matter is that there are two people whose contributions to us were master strokes. We have President Muhammadu Buhari’s electrifying popularity to our advantage which significantly helped us during the elections.

“Before the elections, we had the wisdom and sincerity of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who supported us to remain in control of the APC in Borno State, secured our primaries and deployed energies to winning not just the governorship but also all the three senatorial, 10 House of Representatives and 28 state Assembly seats in Borno State,” he said. ‎
 
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