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The All Progressives Congress(APC) in Oyo State has congratulated the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on the occasion of his 69th birthday.
The party in a statement issued by the State Caretaker Publicity Secretary, Dr AbdulAzeez Olatunde, described Tinubu as a builder of men and resources.
The statement read:”APC Oyo State today joins millions of admirers of the national leader of our Party, Asiwaju of Lagos and Jagaban Borgu as he turns new age.
“Looking right, left,center, up and down, one would certainly and obviously be seeing the wonderful legacy of this builder of men and resources.
“Honestly, any attempt to take on the imprint of this hero of the current democratic democratic dispensation is a voyage to a volume of his biography which this is not meant for.
“A quick recourse to the 2003 general election in Nigeria where the electoral umpire, INEC, superintended over the political tsunami of five governors of the legacy party – Alliance for Democracy (AD). The election swept away AD governors of Ogun-Chief Segun Osoba; Oyo-Late Alh Lam Adesina; Osun – Chief Bisi Akande; Ondo – Late Chief Adebayo Adefarati and Ekiti – Chief Niyi Adebayo.
“If one think about the politico-electoral treachery of the government at the center at wiping off the AD is over, surely, NO.
“The fate that would befall the only surviving opposition party from the western part of Nigeria is better imagined when Lagos State Government under the leadership of the mercurial Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, exercised its Constitutional right of creating Local Council Development Areas to ensure more representation and taking government closer to the people.
“The Federal Government under President Olusegun Obasanjo against judicial victory by the Lagos State Government seized the local government allocation of Lagos State between 2004-2007.
“However, instead of the Federal Government embargo on the local government allocation, that seizure rather challenged Lagos State to dig deeper in its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), such that it has taken Lagos to the fifth Global Economy index today.
“Furthermore, if one now consider the fact of various past botched attempts of the progressives to run government at the center in 1959, 1979,1983 and 1993,and the astounding and unbelievable success of pulling the chestnut out of the fire of 2015 general election, all watchers of the current political dispensation must be awed at the GOLDEN/MIDAS TOUCH of the MASTER STRATEGIST in Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The way and manner the last man standing of 2003 became four states in 2010 with the judicial victory of the legacy party, Action Congress of Nigeria from Edo, Ekiti and Osun until the ultimate reward of the success at the 2015 general election at the centre.
“Lastly, in order not to embark on thesis, this perhaps may be a convenient opportunity for all of us from Oyo State APC led by Chief Akin Oke, to wish the Asiwaju of Lagos and Jagaban Borgu, many happy returns of the day.”