Former President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday visited Borno and Jigawa to commiserate with the folks of the 2 states.
The previous president visited Borno over the devastating flooding within the state and Jigawa over the tanker explosion that claimed no fewer than 180 lives.
A press release issued in Abuja by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, mentioned the 2 incidents occurred when the previous president was away from the nation.
Buhari, in response to the assertion, lamented the injury, destruction and lack of lives that adopted the floods in Borno, hinging this on local weather change.
He counseled the Federal and state governments for the joint efforts to revive normalcy after the floods.
Gov. Babagana Zulum and the Shehu of Borno, Abubakar Ibn El-Kanemi thanked the previous president for the go to.
Zulum mentioned the state would always remember the president “who has accomplished a lot and so properly for Nigeria and Borno state specifically.
“With out the 85 megawatts captive energy plant you constructed right here, Maiduguri would have continued in darkness.
”You gave us the North East Growth Fee, a army college, a federal polytechnic, and a school of schooling and ensured the gradual return of peace after years of Boko Haram terrorism,” he mentioned.
The Information Company of Nigeria additionally stories that appearing governor of Jigawa, Aminu Usman, led the previous president to the Rasheed Shekoni College Instructing Hospital, the place survivors of the explosion had been being handled.
Mr Buhari joined in prayers for the repose of the souls of those that died within the incident and the short restoration of others nonetheless on admission in hospitals.
The appearing governor thanked the previous president for the go to and the money donation to victims of the catastrophe.NAN
