By Chidi Ugwu
A group, The Tinubu Media Volunteers (TMV) have applauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for honouring the late President Muhammadu Buhari with a state burial.
In a statement signed by its Chairman, Chukwudi Enekwechi, and Secretary, Segun Ogedengbe, the group said it was a befitting way to honour a nationalist.
The statement read in part, ” We note that from the period late President Buhari took ill President Tinubu had maintained a close contact with the family. And as his demise was announced, the President also promptly dispatched a presidential delegation led by the vice president, Senator Kashim Shettima and the chief of staff to the president, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, to visit the family in London, and bring back the remains for a national burial.
”We also note that President Tinubu personally received the remains of his predecessor with the compliments of a full presidential and military honour befitting a former president.
”It is on record that the late president has in almost two decades dominated the political landscape of the country especially the northern part of the country where he maintained a 12 million followership until the merger of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Action Congress of Nigerians (ACN), a breakaway faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the All Nigerians Peoples Party (ANPP) which morphed into the current All Progressives Congress (APC).
”We also acknowledge that Tinubu played a pivotal role in the merger and threw his weight behind Buhari’s emergence as the APC presidential candidate and eventually the winner of the 2015 presidential election.
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”From the foregoing, we can conveniently state that their friendship and political alliance have significantly impacted the country.
”So we are really not surprised that at his death, President Tinubu displayed unlimited love and loyalty to the friendship as he rolled out the full compliments of the federal government to give Buhari a befitting burial.
”We have no doubt that this gesture will linger in the memories of Nigerians for a long time.”
The group also commend President Tinubu for the patriotic and leadership role he played in the national loss of former President Buhari.
