Osinbajo: Buhari treats me like a son
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo said President Muhammadu Buhari treats him as a son.
The acting president stated this yesterday at the palace of the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumin Usman.
Osinbajo was in Katsina, President Buhari’s home state, to inaugurate the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) clinic.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, quoted Osinbajo as saying that he felt very much at home in Katsina.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, in messages posted on his Twitter handle @ akandeoj, quoted the acting president saying that: “I feel very much at home in Katsina, more so because this is the state of the president, who has taken me as a brother.
“In fact, the president has taken me as a son in the way he treats me.”
According to the acting president, President Muhammadu Buhari believes in the unity of the country.
He said the amount of responsibilities President Buhari had given to him showed that he (Buhari) ‘seriously’ believed that they could both work together as brothers.
Osinbajo prayed that the Lord preserves Buhari so that he could continue to lead the country as Nigerians had voted him to do.
The emir earlier urged the Federal Government to extend the KadunaKano rail line to Katsina to boost economic and industrial activities.
“At present, the railway line terminates in Kano, but I am calling on the Federal Government to extend it to Katsina. Extension of the rail line will assist in boosting socio-economic activities in Katsina State,” he said.
In his response, the acting President Osinbajo assured that the rail request will be looked into.
At the launching of the MSME Clinic, the state governor Aminu Masari called for the completion of the 10 megawatts windmill power project which was abandoned almost completed to address power challenges and boost small and medium enterprises across the state.