Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday, spent his 66th birthday at the North-East Children’s Trust and the Learning Centre, in Borno State.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, confirmed this in a statement he signed on Wednesday captioned, ‘Osinbajo commemorates 66th birthday in Borno with rehabilitated northeast “Insurgency Orphans”, who call him daddy.’
The North-East Children’s Trust is a private sector-led charity and social engineering initiative incorporated in 2017 with a mission to create innovative, transformational sustainable learning ecosystems that will nurture, renew and empower vulnerable children between ages five and 18 years, who have become orphans as a result of the insurgency in North-East.
The NECT has offered full help to 686 orphaned and vulnerable children via lodging, nutrition, excellent education and rehabilitative psychological support.
Osinbajo, who started his day with a peaceful morning devotion session at his Aguda House home in the Presidential Villa, travelled to Borno accompanied by his wife, Dolapo.
On arrival at the Nigerian Air Force Base, Maiduguri, the VP was met by Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, who was accompanied by his wife, Falmata Zulum, and other high government officials.
He then travelled to the NECT Learning Centre where youngsters of the facility had a lineup of activities to honour the day.
There, Osinbajo reminded the staff and youngsters of the institution of his resolve to continue providing world-class facilities that would make them the greatest among their peers, regardless of the current socioeconomic situation.
“All of you children, who are here, one thing that is quite definite is that God providing me with good health and maintaining my life, I will guarantee that you receive the absolute best.
“However it is, we will do everything possible to make sure that you receive the very best because that is the promise and vow that we made when we started,” Osinbajo added.
Meanwhile, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday, congratulated Osinbajo, for distinguished service to the country, as he turns 66.
In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari said Osinbajo has served the nation “as an academic, Attorney-General of Lagos State (1997-2007), and Vice President (2015 until date).”
The statement claimed Buhari appreciated the skilful manner Osinbajo, a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has integrated education with government, and pastoral work, commending such “dedication to the younger generation whom the Number Two man serves as a torchbearer to.”
Similarly, the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, congratulated the Vice President on Wednesday.
In a statement by his media officer, Tunde Rahman, Tinubu complimented Osinbajo’s administrative talents and professional achievements as an academic and erudite lawyer.
He said, “As the Vice President of our country, Prof Osinbajo has partnered very well with our leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, to deliver on the progressive programmes of our party to make life better for Nigerians, especially in areas of massive infrastructural development and life-changing Social Investment Programmes.”
