President Tinubu to visit former president Buhari’s hometown.
President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to visit Katsina state, the home state of the immediate past president, Muhammadu Buhari, on a two-day official visit on Friday, May 2.
The president’s special adviser on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said that Tinubu would meet key stakeholders and assess security details during his visit to the northwest state.
During the visit, President Tinubu is also expected to attend the wedding of Governor Dikko Umaru Radda’s daughter before departing the state. He is further scheduled to commission the Katsina Agricultural Mechanization Centre and a newly completed 24-kilometre dual carriageway constructed by the state government.
Taking to social media, Isa Miqdad, chairman of Katsina local government, also stated that the president would commission the farming equipment assembled by the local community.
According to his tweet, it says: “The Katsina State Agricultural Mechanisation Centre is scheduled for commissioning by His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday, 2nd May 2025. This innovative project is being carried out by Gov @dikko_radda, with tractors and mechanised farming equipment being assembled by the local community. Well done to our visionary Governor.”
President Tinubu’s visit to Katsina would be the first of its kind since taking over power from Buhari on May 29, 2023. Buhari, a native of Daura in Katsina state, was a two-term president and his tenure as Nigeria’s head of state ended in 2023.
The former president was elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a political party which was formed ahead of the 2015 general elections. The party was a conglomeration of the Congress of Progressive Change (CPC), which was under the leadership of Buhari, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) under Tinubu, and some other political parties, including a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Tinubu and Buhari’s relationship became solidified ahead of the 2015 election, in which the APC defeated the incumbent former President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, making it the first of its kind in Nigeria’s history. The pair made the headlines recently over an alleged crack in their relationship. There were speculations in some quarters earlier that Buhari could dump the APC like ex-governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai.
earlier reported that the North-West Development Commission (NWDC) had announced foreign scholarship programmes.
The NWDC explained that the 2025/2026 undergraduate and postgraduate foreign scholarship was only for candidates in the zone. The commission released guidelines and requirements on how interested qualified candidates could apply for these scholarships.
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