LocalChamp: Tinubu celebrates with physically challenged
By Miriam Ndikanwu 13 hours 21 minutes ago
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•Tinubu and his wife, Oluremi, exchanging pleasantries with children of the Modupe Cole Memorial Home...yesterday
• Says Nigeria’s problem is lack of compassionate leadership
It was a joyous moment for children of Modupe Cole Memorial Home, Yaba and Betheseldar Home for the Blind yesterday, when former Lagos State Governor and National leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, visited them to celebrate his 60th birthday.
The visibly excited children went wild when the celebrator accompanied by his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, arrived the homes. They danced freely to entertain guests.
The Conference of Local Government Chairmen of Lagos State, the organiser of the event, donated a 18 seater bus, electricity generating sets, cartons of cornflakes, milk, custard and so on to the physically challenged children.
Also joining Tinubu to celebrate, were ACN National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed and Lagos State Chairman of the party, Chief Henry Ajomale.
Tinubu commended the chairmen for donating the items to the physically challenged children in commemoration of his birthday, saying the nation’s problem is lack of compassionate leadership.
Tinubu said: “Let me thank the principal and staff of this home for their dedication in giving care to these children, some of whom were picked from the dustbin and have been given life by Modupe Cole Memorial Home. What is wrong with our country is lack of compassionate leadership, people who think and care on behalf of children of Mr. and Mrs. nobody.”
The celebrator, who said his entire salary throughout his stay in office as the governor of the state was donated to orphanages, urged the chairmen to be paying the temporary employees of the home . He said: “You can adopt them in group and contribute monthly to their salary.”
He also assured the home’s managers that he would assist further through the Bola Tinubu Foundation.
“I want to say thank you for this reception and also to say let compassion exist at the federal level. The Federal Government can do better to give succour by building physically challenged schools all over the country, but if you make cases for child abuse, against child trafficking and for sons and daughters of Mr. nobody and you are far away in Abuja, I want to say we should have a special session outside Ministry of Education, because these special children have the same right as that of the president of Nigeria.”
Chairman, Conference of Local Government Chairmen, Sulaiman Akeem said the chairmen were motivated to donate the items on behalf of Tinubu to the less privileged because the conference felt that the best way to celebrate an icon was not by wining and dining.
He said: “We feel that people who are the creation of God should not be left behind in the celebration. We should let them know that the society has not forgotten them.
“We are truly celebrating a man who has touched lives. He is a man who cares for Nigeria’s democracy. He could have chosen the side of comfort but he did not.”


Akeem said Tinubu showed that he was rugged when he confronted the Federal Government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo when he withheld the allocation to councils in the state .
“He is resilient in the enthronement of genuine democracy. Whatever beautiful things Lagos is enjoying now, he laid the foundation,” he stated.
Speaking, Ajomale hailed the council chairmen for donating to the poor to mark Tinubu’s birthday.

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LocalChamp: Tinubu celebrates with physically challenged
By Miriam Ndikanwu 13 hours 21 minutes ago
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•Tinubu and his wife, Oluremi, exchanging pleasantries with children of the Modupe Cole Memorial Home...yesterday
• Says Nigeria’s problem is lack of compassionate leadership

Fhemmmy:
What is he doing to change this

Okija_juju: Tollgate money bit'ches!!

NRI PRIEST:

So,Seun finally released your blackass? Next time there will be chains around your neck,upper and lower extremeties just like slave!
Ogoli nuo nwanyi nabo omalu nke ka mma. Nwata sili na nnie ama nzu ike nya nwa ama enwenata ezumike! Ifele megbuo gi! I na asom oyi ka nsi!

musiwa,,.:
congrat, he is old now. they are all old now... need for replacement. so Betheseldar Home for the Blind is still there, nice...

polokor60: happy birthday asiwaju but you look older than a sixty year old man

tayoTFC:
@ antatikar......Animal tinubu that should roast in hell. Most of those children he made disable by stealing resources that were made for their medical care....

ur papa is animal if u can open ur stupid mouth to insult an elderly man regardles of ur badbele..with him...some of u claiming A B Tinubu is criminal or curupt can u pls open up any charges against him that he was found guilty ? like the likes of ibori and co PDP leaders...