President Bola Tinubu has celebrated his friend and ally, former President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the latter as an icon of truth, justice, and patriotism on his 81st birthday anniversary.
President Tinubu, in a statement by Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, on Saturday, extolled the peerless leadership credentials and feats of the former President, recalling his meritorious service to the nation at various times as Head of State and as elected President.
Reeling out former President Buhari’s unparalleled record of infrastructural provision, comprising several new international airports, multiple standard-gauge railway lines, new seaport development, dozens of new dams, power stations, oil and gas infrastructure, expressways and mega-bridges, in addition to establishing Nigeria’s first-ever national social investment and protection programme, amongst many other feats.
President Tinubu fondly recalled the former President’s aggressive push to modernise Nigeria’s…