The
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, has extolled the
virtues of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ahmed
Bola Tinubu, saying he made the
impossible happen by ensuring that an
opposition became the ruling party for the first time in Nigeria’s history.
Fashola stated this in
a congratulatory message to Tinubu during the colloquium organised to mark the
APC national leader’s 64th birthday in Abuja.
According to the
Minister, Tinubu steered the country away from the destruction the immediate
past administration was dragging it into.
Fashola said, “It was
dangerous for Nigeria to keep that administration for another term and the
evidence of that was before us. The country was falling apart. You must salute
the courage, the passion, the foresight of Asiwaju to reach across and say ‘let
us forge a partnership to save Nigerians, to save ourselves’.
“On whether or not
there could be a merger, everyone said it wasn’t going to happen, it had never
happened in the history of Nigeria and as far as that was concerned, it (the
merger) was a victory that the impossible had become not only probable but
possible and that was due to Asiwaju’s self conviction and, as I said, his
ability to mobilise people and materials behind an idea.”
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