Lagos Speaker Obasa visits First Lady, pledges support for RHI
Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa has pledged his unflinching support to the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) of the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu. Obasa pledged the support
Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa has pledged his unflinching support to the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) of the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu.
Obasa pledged the support while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of his visit to Mrs. Tinubu at the Presidential Villa yesterday in Abuja.
The Speaker hailed Mrs. Tinubu for hosting an interfaith breaking of the Ramadan and Lent fast for women.
He described the First Lady’s role in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration through the expansion of the benefits of the Renewed Hope Agenda to the grassroots as inestimable.
“I am here to see the First Lady in this period of Ramadan and Lent, both happening together. That is why I am here to identify with our First Lady, as we know that she is a mother of faith who strongly believes in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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“Right from Lagos, since her days as wife of the governor and now as the First Lady of the federation, it is important to say hello to Her Excellency and to join her to observe short prayers since we are all fasting.
“Recently, she held the breaking of fast for both Christian and Muslim women, and she just returned from Delta State. That was a great reception and great outing. All these we have witnessed and we shall continue to see more of such,” Obasa said.
The Lagos Speaker also expressed appreciation to Mrs. Tinubu for carrying out many programmes through the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) in support of what the Federal Government has been doing in reaching out to the citizens.
He praised her for using the initiative for the benefit of children, women, and youths across the country, adding that her past leadership in Lagos and her “impactful” work had continued to speak.
Obasa urged governors whose wives are also the coordinators of RHI in their states to also support the programmes.
The Speaker described them as another way every Nigerian could benefit from the Federal Government.
”We need to support her in everything she has been doing: the way she reaches out to children and the helpless ones in our society. That is part of the reason we are here to commend her for the good job she has been doing.
”The food distribution, we have witnessed, the menstrual pads distribution to young girls in secondary schools and many more projects she has embarked on and her support for Mr. President.
”It is necessary to have support from the states because she cannot do it alone and she is not doing it for herself. It is in the interest of Nigerians, particularly women and children.
“Therefore, there is the need to call on the governors and the rest of them to keep supporting her, especially in what she is doing, and we, in our little way, will continue to support her,” Obasa said.
The Lagos Speaker stressed the need for governors in the 36 states of the federation to enlighten their people on what the President had been doing through the Renewed Hope Agenda, using the RHI platform.
