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One of the founding fathers of the All Progressives Congress and former Lagos state Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was said to have been embarrassed  by a thug, Ise Aye during his accreditation at polling  unit 047 on Kaffi/Sunday Adigun Street, Alausa, Ikeja.<br />
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According to reports from Punch, the thug, who had scars on his face and tattoos all over his body, shouted at the former governor and accused him of neglecting youths in the area. In his words in Yoruba, he said, “You abandoned us here. The leaders here did not give us money. I know what I have suffered in the hands of the PDP all because I refused to join them. We remained loyal to the APC because of your late mother (Iya Mogaji) that lived here.Anytime I come here looking for money, they refer me to Bourdillon in Ikoyi but no one allows me to enter your mansion.”<br />
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Tinubu, who  described Ise Aye as an untrained young man lacking in wisdom. He said, “Do you have any sense at all? Is that how you were trained to talk to elders. Get out of here,   you are embarrassing me.”<br />
The young man eventually prostrated for Tinubu.<br />
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How A thug embarrassed Bola Tinubu at Polling Unit

One of the founding fathers of the All Progressives Congress and former Lagos state Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was said to have been ...

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At a colourful ceremony in Njala, Sierra Leone, where he was 
honoured with a doctorate degree in Civil Laws, former Lagos State 
Governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu gave insight into why the All Progressives 
Congress (APC) was formed and praised Sierra Leone for coming out of the
 ashes of war, reports Olukorede Yishau, just back from Sierra Leone<br />
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Before
 a massive crowd of cheering men and women, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu 
was at the weekend bestowed with a honourary doctorate degree of Civil 
Laws at the 50-year old Njala University, Njala, Sierra Leone. Men, 
women and children struggled for space under the open court opposite the
 Administrative Block of the university, where Tinubu was honoured.<br />
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Those
 who could not get a seat chose to stand and watch the proceedings. 
Among the crowd were academics, graduands and their parents. Occupying a
 corner of the raised platform was a delegation from Nigeria. They were 
there to witness the honour being bestowed on their friend, brother and 
leader. The key message of the former Lagos State Governor and National 
Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC): the best is yet to come. 
There was also another message: Nigeria lives more in darkness than in 
light.<br />
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The ceremony was witnessed by a crowd estimated at about 
5,000, including over 1,000 graduands who bagged undergraduate and post 
graduate degrees in several disciplines. The crowd also include former 
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu 
Ribadu, ex-Mobil topshot Chief Pius Akinyelure, APC interim spokesman 
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, former Lagos State Commissioner for Health Dr Leke 
Pitan, an influential APC chieftain from Borno State, Kashim Imam, 
one-time Lagos State Finance Commissioner Wale Edun, former Lagos State 
Commissioner for Information and Strategy Dele Alake, The News 
Editor-in-Chief Bayo Onanuga, Mr Jide Sanwo-Olu and Special Adviser to 
Lagos State Governor on Central Business District Mrs Derin Disu.<br />
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Also
 there were council chairmen, such as Kehinde Bamigbetan (Ejigbo Local 
Council Development Authority (LCDA), Adeyemi Alli (Odi-Olowo-Ojuwoye ),
 Akeem Sulaimon (Bariga), Wasiu Eshinlokun Sanni (Lagos Island) and 
Bolaji Ariyoh (Oshodi-Isolo). Tinubu’s personal aides, such as Sunday 
Dare (Special Adviser on Media) and Dr Akintola Benson, also witnessed 
the ceremony. Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Njala University Prof
 Abu Sesay was full of praises for Tinubu. He described him as “one of 
Africa’s great sons”. He added that no one qualified more than Tinubu to
 receive the honour. “Those who know this gentleman would agree that the
 university could hardly have selected a more worthy candidate for this 
honour,” the Vice-Chancellor said.<br />
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The Pro-Chancellor, Dr Sandy 
Bockarie, agreed with Sesay, describing Tinubu as a man of sterling 
qualities. The school’s orator, Dr Samuel Senesie, was not short of 
words in praising Tinubu. He was only short of time, but still took no 
less than 15 minutes extolling his virtues. Senesie said some of the 
criteria used by the university in choosing Tinubu include creativity, 
humility and generosity. He praised the two most important women in 
Tinubu’s life, his wife Senator Oluremi and late mother Abibatu Mogaji 
for what he has turned out to be. He said: “Our candidate was a menial 
worker in the United States.<br />
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He eked out living by washing dishes 
and serving as night guard and as taxi driver… He used the proceeds of 
his labour in America and paid his way into the Richard Daley College, 
Chicago and later transferred to the Chicago State University, where he 
was on the Dean’s list from the start to the finish of the programme.” 
Senesie was interrupted by a cheering crowd. But he was not done. “He 
won the prestigious university scholars award. He won the certificate of
 merit in Accounting and Finance. He was given the privilege to give 
tutorial lessons to other students for which all those colleagues remain
 thankful till today,” he added.<br />
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When he mounted the podium to 
give his acceptance speech, Tinubu was cheered on by the audience. He 
said he appreciated the honour done him. He said it was a great honour 
to be recognised by an institution which topped the University of Sierra
 Leone in the 2013 ranking of African Universities. Tinubu said: “It is 
appropriate that I step forward to receive this degree because that is 
exactly what Njala University and what Sierra Leone have done.<br />
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You
 have stepped forward. “From the ash and dust of war, you have stepped 
forward. A small nation engulfed by such a big war. You persevered, 
defying the odds and resurrecting and steering yourselves toward hope 
and peace. As a nation, you have stepped forward. You, as individuals, 
have stepped forward. “After seeing what you have done in facing down 
the steep odds and overcoming the harsh challenge of war, what more 
could I do but join you by stepping forward to accept this degree.<br />
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“As
 such, our roles today should be reversed. You called me forth to honor 
me. I accepted your invitation but came here not for the purpose you 
think. I came here not to receive an honor but, in my own humble way, 
that I may honor what you have done and what you symbolise to the West 
African sub-region.” He said no nation, no people ought to have suffered
 the way Sierra Leone did, adding that the country teetered on the brink
 of extinction and came as close to the gates of Hell. “Yet with some 
help from your friends, you averted disaster when disaster seemed 
inevitable and permanent.<br />
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You held fast to a thin ray of hope 
until it grew to fill the sky above the nation. “A new nation has risen 
from the old. Yes, scars and wounds from the battle are there but the 
spirit is a different one. It directs us toward a better future and away
 from the bleak past. The worst has passed. The best is yet to come. 
This is lesson you teach the rest of West Africa. Social tranquility and
 peace are precious things not to be taken for granted. Take them for 
granted and they just may be taken from you by virtue of your own 
negligence. We ignore these lessons at our peril,” Tinubu said. He added
 that leadership and those in government are the mind of a nation.<br />
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Women,
 he said, constitute the heart of the nation and men the backbone. He 
said: “But it is the youth who are the muscle, limbs and hands of a 
country. Leave the youth idle, leave the youth hopeless, leave them 
destitute, then you leave a nation at the mercy of a merciless fate. For
 its muscles, limbs and hands will atrophy or begin to work against it. 
“No nation can attain stability, let alone greatness, unless it provides
 productive work and opportunity to its young. If not, the young will be
 led astray and with them shall go not only the future but the present.<br />
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“This
 is why I am so committed to youth education and employment. As a 
leader, I would be guilty of gross dereliction of duty if I did not 
place a high priority on the learning and labour of our youth. To cast 
you to the winds of unguided fate is to cast a ticking bomb toward the 
rest of the nation. Njala University with her student population is an 
inspiration. Founded in 1964 and fifty years hence, it remains a 
fountain of knowledge.<br />
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Through its six established schools; School
 of Education, Community Health Services, Social Sciences, Agriculture, 
Environmental Sciences and School of Technology, Njala University 
continues to dispense knowledge and equip present and future leaders. 
And just like, the country Sierra Leone, it weathered the storms of war,
 absolved the carnage and deadly mortar of battle to hold forth the 
torch of education.<br />
“What I see here encourages me. What I see 
beginning to evolve in this great country under the competent leadership
 of Ernest Bai Koroma. His commitment to change and good governance 
excites me. Old ways crumble. Old things pass away. Something new 
approaches. Oh yes, the best is yet to come.” In Nigeria, he said, a 
unique political movement is afoot. Joining other progressive leaders, 
Tinubu said, he recently helped establish the All Progressives Congress 
(APC), which, according to him, is more than a political party or 
organisation.<br />
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“It is a mission, a calling forth of the nation to 
realise its better self,” he said. He said the APC came into being after
 progressives forces realised that if Nigeria continues as it is, it 
would soon collide into the barrier of its internal contradictions, such
 as being a land of vast wealth yet vast penury; and a people of great 
talent and energy but also of despair. He added that it is shameful that
 the country exports the raw material that helps fuel, electrify and 
lubricate the global economy but lives more in darkness than in light. 
Tinubu said: “We formed the APC so Nigerians from all walks of life and 
social station might gather under one tent to develop the nation on the 
basis of equity and shared prosperity.<br />
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What we seek is a fair 
social compact so that we may avoid social calamity. “A core element of 
our mission is to make all levels of education, from primary to 
university level, accessible to all people, regardless of economic 
circumstance. To survive in the modern economy, education is a must. As 
such, responsible leadership must view education as a public right and 
no longer a luxury to be enjoyed only by those with the money to 
purchase it for themselves.<br />
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Government must help financially those
 who can’t help themselves in this essential regard. “For example, we 
advocate a liberal student aid and loan programme so that able but poor 
students are not denied their dream of a university education. Under our
 programme, young people will also receive technical and vocational 
training for jobs and opportunities that actually exist in the economy 
instead of just receiving classroom instruction for things that only 
exist in the textbook.<br />
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“Moreover, we seek a jobs programme whereby
 government works in tandem with the private sector to provide 
meaningful work experience, mentoring as well as temporary and permanent
 employment for various classes of youths. “We aim not to train and 
educate young people into joblessness and despair but to help them 
realise their finest aspirations by becoming able, productive members of
 society who can fend for themselves and earn livelihoods allowing them 
to establish families and homes of their own. “We have this dream, we 
move toward this goal. I tell you the best is yet to come. Moreover, we 
seek this improvement not just for Nigeria but for the entire 
sub-region. “As the most populous nation and largest economy in the 
sub-region, Nigeria has the singular responsibility to generate economic
 activity that not only sparks growth internally but also catalyses 
development in the sub-region.”<br />
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He said the economies of West 
African still too closely adhere to colonial patterns of trade and 
commerce, adding that the economies interact with the outside world more
 than they do with themselves. “We must end this. An economy with poor 
trade with its neighbour is a poor economy. Maintaining these patterns 
of trade means our economies stay mired in the lower rungs of the global
 division of labor. We export raw material on the cheap and import 
manufactured goods at dear costs.<br />
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“The industrialisation of the 
sub-region and vast number jobs such activity would unleash remain a 
dream deferred and prosperity delayed. It is high time we did for 
ourselves what other parts of the world have done to help themselves. 
“We are committed to promoting sub-regional industrialisation and 
manufacturing that will bring new jobs to our increasingly urbanised 
populations. We espouse reform that enhances the quality and quantity of
 internal trade among West African states so that we may become our 
brothers’ keeper, thus guaranteeing each other a better, more diverse 
economy,” Tinubu said.<br />
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Tinubu ended his remarks by announcing that
 he would build a hostel for the school. Applause delayed the last part 
of his plan for the school and when it came, he was seen off to his seat
 by another round of applause. He said for the next five years he would 
sponsor 50 indigent students of the university. The vice-chancellor 
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