Shettima: Tinubu Carries ‘Fire” Like His Late Mother, Abibatu Mogaji

Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has eulogised the late mother of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who he said played a crucial role in shaping him to become an enviable leader the country can be proud of.

President Tinubu’s mother, Abibatu Mogaji who in her lifetime was the Iyaloja General  of Nigeria died on June 15, 2023.

Shettima made the remark in Abuja, the nation’s capital  during the annual Grand Prayer Session in honour of the president’s late mother, saying Mogaji left a good legacy behind that will continue to impact future generation in the country.

According to the vice president, President Tinubu learned greatly from his late mother, saying Tinub “carries” the same fire as the late matriach of his family, adding that the values inculcated in him by his mother has continued to guide him as Nigeria’s leader and public life generally.

He stressed that one of the values President Tinubu learned from his late mother, include sacrifice to fight for the people even when it’s not convenient, adding that while alive Mogaji used her position as market leader successfully bu turning the  marketplace to “a meeting point of human need and human dignity.”

Shetima: “It should surprise no one, then, that the son she raised carries the same fire into the highest office in our land. His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, learned at her side that public life is a trust and that leadership is owed first to the ordinary and the unheard.

“The instinct to fight for democracy when it was dangerous to do so, the willingness to stand for the common good when comfort counselled silence, the conviction that the citizen deserves a government that works for them — all of this was first kindled in a home where service was the daily example. A mother shaped a leader, and through that leader her values now serve the whole of Nigeria.”