TUNDE IDIAGBON WAS A RARE EXAMPLE OF LOYALTY - PRESIDENT BUHARI

Date: 2018-10-23

"The late Major General Tunde Idiagbon was a very rare example of what loyalty to fatherland and to a superior should be.

"Tunde was strong, loyal and extremely committed to the cause of positively changing the narrative about Nigeria, which the administration set out to do at that time," the President Muhammadu Buhari has said.

Speaking, Monday, when he received APC governorship aspirants and members of the party from the three senatorial zones of Kwara State at State House, President Buhari recalled how his former deputy, who, while on pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia when the administration was overthrown in 1985, insisted on returning to the country despite the political uncertainty especially as he had learnt that he, as Commander-in-Chief at that time, had not been killed in the take-over.

The President added that the late Idiagbon rejected the offer from the King of Saudi Arabia to bring members of his (Idiagbon) family from Nigeria to the Kingdom, as he was his guest at that time, and eventually returned to Nigeria to suffer arrest like he (Buhari) did.

President Buhari further enjoined Nigerians to remain faithful and loyal to the country in all their dealings. "You don't have to be in uniform to be loyal. What I said long ago in 1984 is still valid today. We have no other country but Nigeria. Others who feel they have another country may choose to go. We will stay here and salvage it together," he said.

President Buhari thanked the APC stakeholders for the position they have taken to continue to support the party regardless of the outcome of the primaries and assured them that, with the unity displayed so far, APC will form the government in Kwara State after the 2019 elections.

Femi Adesina

Special Adviser to the President

(Media and Publicity)

October 22, 2018

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sheriff Shagaya     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Aminat Omodara     FERMA     Ike Ekweremadu     Bluenile Associates     Hamidu Olowo     Oba Of Jebba     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Olabimpe Olani     Bayo Lawal     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Roheemat Hammed     Chief Imam Of Offa     General Hospital     Kola Adesina     Metro Park     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Solomon Edojah     Lanre Badmas     Ogidi-Oloje     Daud Adeshola     New Nigeria People’s Party     Igbaja     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Umar Sanda Yusuf     General Hospital, Ilorin     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Owode Market     Oloyede     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Share     Kolawole Akande     Aminat Ahmed     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Yeketi     Olomu     Rapheal Ashaolu     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Kola Bukoye     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Mukhtar Shagaya     Hassanat Bello     Sarakite     Awwal Jawondo     Gbugbu International Market     Alapado     Apado     Oluwatoyin Lukman     African Democratic Congress     JUSUN     Owo Arugbo     Afeyin-Olukuta     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Funmilayo Oniwa     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Overland     Muslim Cementary     Hamid Bobboyi     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Oke-Kura     Danladi     Egbejila     Kwara Liberation Group     Ekiti     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Sa\'adu Gambari     Offorjama     Yahaya Muhammad     Ethical College    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kolade Solagberu     Salihu S. Yaru     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Gbenga Adebayo     Olatunde Jare     Funmilayo Oniwa     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Orisa Bridge     Aliyu Umar     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Ilota     Demola Banu     Surajudeen Akanbi     All Peoples Party     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Elesie Of Esie     Kazeem Adekanye     Saliu Oluwole     Bello Abubakar     Saidu Yaro Musa     Adebara     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Aminat Omodara     NYSC     Javed Khan     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Hassan Saliu     Bolaji Aladie     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Kayode Yusuf     Yoruba     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Amuda Bembe     Senate Presidency     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     S.O. Opowoye     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Solomon Edojah     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Emir Of Kano     Chief Imam Of Offa     Oyun     Otuka     Nigeria Computer Society     Marufat Oladosu     Dan Iya     Owo Arugbo     Mashood Dauda     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Habeeb Saidu     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Ahmed Dankaya     Universal Basic Education Commission     Wasiu Onidugbe     Mansur Alfanla     Sulu Gambari     Kemi Adeosun     Rachael Obisesan     MINILS     Olaosebikan     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Earlyon Technologies     Paul Olawoore     Kayode Laro     Saeedat Aliyu     Ope Saraki     Mohammed Lawal     Grillo     Ahmad Uthman     Ita-Nmo Market