President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his felicitations with the immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on the occasion of his 79th birthday on August 12, 2018.
This was contained in a statement on Sunday by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, copy of which was sent to The DEFENDER.
President Buhari, according to the statement, joined the family, friends, well-wishers and party members in celebrating what he described as “another milestone in the lifetime of a patriotic Nigerian, who personifies the meaning of a progressive in letter and in spirit.”
He recalled that throughout Chief Oyegun’s distinguished career as a civil servant, first civilian Governor of Edo State, pro-democracy activist and the first elected National Chairman of the APC, whose leadership was instrumental to the advent of the Change government in 2015, he stood out as a beacon of progressive values and principles embodied in change, reforms and intense commitment to the good of the nation.
The President prayed that God would grant the celebrant more years of good health and fulfilment to see a nation where positive change, in all facets of our national lives, is a reality for all.
