Vice President Kashim Shettima has lauded President Bola Tinubu’s sacrifices, stating that history will remember him as the leader who took on the nation’s most complex challenges.

Speaking at a special Iftar held to mark the president’s birthday at the presidential villa in Abuja on Saturday night, Shettima said Tinubu is taking “bullets” that many leaders before him “simply lacked the courage to face”.

He said: “Thanks to his boldness, future presidents of Nigeria will not have to wrestle with the same ghosts that haunted past administrations, including fraud-ridden fuel subsidies, an unstable forex market, and the suppression of local government autonom.

“These were the thorny issues that many before him sidestepped. But Asiwaju did not sidestep history; he came to rewrite it.

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“And in rewriting it, Asiwaju has taken the bullets that many before him simply lacked the courage to face. But that is the thing about true leadership: it is not for those who seek comfort. It is for those who understand that the path to national greatness is lined with difficult choices.”

Senate President Godswill Akpabio praised the President’s ability to forgive and his relentless passion for national development.

Akpabio described the President as a leader who thinks outside the box and as the ‘most audacious president’ in the country’s history.

He said under Tinubu’s watch, governors are getting more allocation.

“If I were a governor under your administration, I would have been a ‘supernatural governor’ and not an uncommon governor,” he said.

Other politicians have also penned tributes to the president to celebrate his birthday.