{"id":62336,"date":"2025-03-08T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62336"},"modified":"2025-03-08T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T16:13:20","slug":"tinubu-celebrates-osinbajo-at-68-hails-his-service-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/08\/tinubu-celebrates-osinbajo-at-68-hails-his-service-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Celebrates Osinbajo at 68, Hails His Service to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has extended warm birthday wishes to his longtime ally and former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, as he marks his 68th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Saturday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President (Information &amp; Strategy), Tinubu praised Osinbajo\u2019s contributions to Nigeria\u2019s governance, describing him as a loyal partner in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting Osinbajo\u2019s tenure as Vice President from 2015 to 2023, Tinubu acknowledged his role in driving key infrastructural projects alongside former President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>He also recalled Osinbajo\u2019s brief but impactful stint as Acting President during Buhari\u2019s medical leave.<\/p>\n<p>The President lauded Osinbajo\u2019s legacy as Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos during his administration, noting that they worked together to implement transformative legal and political reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their contest for the APC presidential ticket in 2023, Tinubu reaffirmed their enduring friendship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Yemi Osinbajo will always remain my friend and associate. He served our country with distinction and upheld the values of our great party,\u201d Tinubu stated.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Osinbajo\u2019s family, especially his wife, Dolapo, and their children, in celebrating the distinguished professor, wishing him continued success and good health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu President Bola Tinubu has extended warm birthday wishes to his longtime ally and former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, as he marks his 68th birthday. In a statement issued on Saturday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President (Information &amp; Strategy), Tinubu praised Osinbajo\u2019s contributions to Nigeria\u2019s governance, describing him as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62338,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62336\/revisions\/62338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}